Norton opens with “If you think money can’t buy happiness, you’re not spending it right,” then proceeds to talks about some novel research into correlations between money and happiness.
Category: Notes
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“Simplexity” by Jeffrey Kluger
Kluger has collected a variety of interesting research regarding the operations of complex and simple systems. There are a lot of very interesting connections between these systems.
Interesting tidbit: Mammals, regardless of size, live an average of 1 billion heartbeats.
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Luis von Ahn: Massive-scale online collaboration
You know those annoying boxes at the bottom of web forms that are filled with garbled text that is hard to read but you have to type in the words in a box in order to submit the form? von Ahn dispels the mystery of those words and explains how those text boxes are helping to digitize human knowledge.
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Joe Sabia: The technology of storytelling
Sabia capture the evolution of storytelling in a fun, sasync way.
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“Happiness” by Richard Layard
There is a lot of effort that goes into researching happiness. Layard has gathered much of that research and presents it in an engaging narrative.
Interesting tidbit: It is easier to be happy when you surround yourself with people who are poorer than yourself.