This paper investigates the role of work in providing meaning, purpose, community, and other non-monetary benefits. Using an original cross-national survey of 8,234 working-age adults across the UK, US, Denmark, and India, I study the factors that motivate people in their work, with an eye toward th...
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Practical tools for design engineers to explore possible futures through speculative design
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A strategy of means, not ends
Justified confidence requires strong argument
Nobody wants to be inefficient. But is efficiency as simple a concept as we think?
The DOE Climate Working Group is talking about revising their disgraceful report. It won’t fix the numerous problems wit…
From Big Think and Pop Charts, A Literary Map of America that “highlights the real and imagined settings of hundreds of books”. Frank Jacobs takes a closer look at some of the imaginary places on the map, including Sleepy Hollow, Lake Wobegon, Brokeback Mountain, and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s East Egg a...
Read slowly. There is no hurry.