Tag: Human Behavior
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The Addiction to Being Busy
Busyness used to be something that happened to people. Today, for a great many of us, it’s something we are. Read More
Written by Khali Sollis
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Productivity Became a Personality
On The Decade When Optimizing The Self Replaced Having One Somewhere in the early 2010s, being busy stopped being a complaint and started being a brag. Read More
Written by Khali Sollis
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Why Humans Started Living Publicly
On privacy, self-disclosure, and the slow erosion of the private self There was a moment, sometime around 2009 or 2010, when a significant portion of the population made a decision that would have seemed strange to any previous generation: they began narrating their lives out loud, in public, to people they mostly didn’t know very… Read More
Written by Khali Sollis
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How Social Media Learned to Train Human Behavior
Social media as behavioral conditioning — and why it worked so well Maya unlocks her phone to check a text and twenty minutes later cannot remember why she picked it up. Read More
Written by Khali Sollis
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The Social Brain Meets the Internet
How the brain, built for face-to-face contact, adapts to digital social life, from emotional contagion research to reward, comparison, and adolescence. Read More
Written by Khali Sollis
