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In the latest instance of the design and business worlds intersecting, McKinsey is buying the design consultancy Lunar.

The deal illustrates just how central design is to business today—and how design’s influence is growing beyond the tech industry into the corporate world at large.

#designthinking #creativity #CFS

Under the right conditions, a random group of atoms will self-organize, unbidden, to more effectively use energy. Over time and with just the right amount of, say, sunlight, a cluster of atoms could come remarkably close to what we call life. In fact, here’s a thought: Some things we consider inanimate actually may already be “alive.” It all depends on how we define life, something England’s work might prompt us to reconsider. “People think of the origin of life as being a rare process,” says Vijay Pande, a Stanford chemistry professor. “Jeremy’s proposal makes life a consequence of physical laws, not something random.”

#gameoflife #DNA

'depression is a kind of allergy to modern life'

#brain #depression

surprise, surprise, we might be mistreating depression.

#depression #brain

Neil Gaiman in Syria.

#war #politics #social

scratching the surface.

#depression #mentalhealth #musicalbrain

#futureofwork

#transformation #newworld #parenting #mentalhealth

"Say goodnight to the dream that education, journalism, scientific evidence, media literacy or reason can provide the tools and information that people need in order to make good decisions. It turns out that in the public realm, a lack of information isn’t the real problem. The hurdle is how our minds work, no matter how smart we think we are. We want to believe we’re rational, but reason turns out to be the ex post facto way we rationalize what our emotions already want to believe."

#brain #mind #reason

Burnout isn't caused by not taking enough breaks. Burning out is the result of not being able to do what you love or what is most important to you regularly.

#brain #mentalhealth #burnout

“Despite how personal our feelings feel, the evidence suggests our brains use a standard code to speak the same emotional language,” Anderson says.

#brain #gamification

#gamification #brain #mentalhealth

"In the process one thing seems to have been lost in translation from his original observation, that I think still stands true. And that’s that sagacitywas involved—a word that has roots in seeking, being observant, wise and keen. And because luck is just random, it’s this side of serendipity that I want to discuss: chance favours the prepared mind. Serendipity isn’t luck."

#serendipity%

When opportunities abound, a potent cocktail of dopamine — a neurotransmitter operating along the pleasure pathways of the brain — and testosterone encourages us to expand our risk taking, a physical transformation I refer to as “the hour between dog and wolf.” One such opportunity is a brief spike in market volatility, for this presents a chance to make money. But if volatility rises for a long period, the prolonged uncertainty leads us to subconsciously conclude that we no longer understand what is happening and then cortisol scales back our risk taking. In this way our risk taking calibrates to the amount of uncertainty and threat in the environment.

[...] IT may seem counterintuitive to use uncertainty to quell volatility. But a small amount of uncertainty surrounding short-term interest rates may act much like a vaccine immunising the stock market against bubbles. More generally, if we view humans as embodied brains instead of disembodied minds, we can see that the risk-taking pathologies found in traders also lead chief executives, trial lawyers, oil executives and others to swing from excessive and ill-conceived risks to petrified risk aversion.

#brain #stress

"Critics really love to hate on millennials. They call us the lazy generation, the entitled generation, and the “me me me generation.” Based on the young people I know, these stereotypes couldn’t be farther from the truth. Millennials want to work--and despite being shackled by debt, recession, and the jobs crisis--they aren’t motivated by money. Rather, they’re driven to make the world more compassionate, innovative, and sustainable."

#play ethic #soulitariat

In a surprise discovery, researchers have identified a group of people whose cognitive abilities allow them to accomplish much more than the rest of us in any given moment. The secret of their success may be simply ignoring more—and doing and feeling less—than the average person.

"Her experiments further indicate that gamers aren't born this way; they've reshaped their brains—and so can other people. [...] excellent results come from a fairly modest routine of about half an hour to an hour each day, five days a week, for 10 to 12 weeks."

#game layer #learning #brain

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