A Norman Door is a door that has a design feature that contradicts its function You’ve probably run into many of these doors, not realizing that is is a legitimate design flaw. Those doors that have vertical sidebar handle, that begs you to pull, but the door is actually push. It’s confusing, and is a simple fix: remove the Continue reading

Context matters because context is the difference between wine tasting 20% better… Even if it’s the same bottle of wine. But the context: more expensive wine teaches us to expect better tasting wine and creates the context of such a situation to be true in our perspective. Context tells us that Banksy’s famous art pieces are Continue reading

The past few days I have been completely obsessed with VOX videos and TED-ED videos. I’ve probably spent more hours watching YouTube videos than doing anything else in the past few days. Watching these videos just constantly reminds me that there is so much knowledge out there. There is so much that I don’t know, Continue reading

What is better: diamonds, or water? In economics, there is a term called “marginal utility” It’s the satisfaction you gain from consuming a product or service And it’s the understanding that every product has its own marginal utility it’s kind of like a happiness factor, and a way to quantify that happiness. Maybe chocolate has Continue reading

everyone is trying to solve “problems” everyone is trying to give solutions to life’s woes here is my advice: before you get too carried away and spend too much time on trying to fix something make sure you identify that there is a problem in the first place being able to identify whether or not Continue reading

If you have access to the internet, and access to a laptop or smartphone for YouTube, you can essentially learn almost anything you want. Perhaps you’d like to learn about string theory, game theory, or watch the music theory, it’s all available on video, and I know because I just watched those 3 videos. If Continue reading

Nostalgia… It’s a very powerful emotion and one that I can’t necessarily pinpoint. Do you guys feel it as often as I do? When I think of my childhood, I think of all the great things I did. The friends I had The experiences The freedom And I miss it. And I often remind myself… Continue reading