I don’t think I’ve made it a great big mystery that I’m a fan of Peter Gray (see here and here) while still being critical of his overall presentation and argumentation at times. Generally, I think Gray is correct about many of his conclusions but his reasoning can, at times, be problematic. One of those…
The way the media often reports on statistics, even ones that might reinforce some sort of cognitive bias that I have tends to irk me. In this case The Independent and the Research Digest for The British Psychological Society both reported on a study with a ridiculously small sample size (60 people) and said it…
The topic of mental health and work is no stranger to this site as I’ve discussed it a few times either personally or more generally. A particular phenomenon within work itself however, workaholism, hasn’t really been discussed (surprisingly) and certainly not in any detail when it comes to its correspondence to various mental health issues.…
A piece by the Guardian UK’s Peter Fleming called Work is no cure for illness - the 24/7 culture is making us sick makes many interesting points while highlighting a then recent story. Ian Smith, a conservative party politician announced back in the summer of 2015 that he planned on having people fund their own…
My good ol’ buddy, Eben, sent me a link on how we’ve been historically moving towards longer lives and less work. Now, the CSS is very fancy and all that, but the real magic is here. If you’re click-shy, hat’s the study that all of these pretty graphs, charts, bars and whatnot are relying on.…
One of my friends is really into ants so I’ll likely get something wrong here and then be corrected. …But that’s not till later! So until then let’s talk about some interesting research done on ants! …new research shows that many ants in a colony seem to specialize in doing nothing at all. To get…
I struggle with depression and anxiety, specifically social anxiety. I get nervous around strangers to mild degrees and find it difficult to talk to people I don’t know well. Even people who I sort of know, I can be awkward or not know exactly how to respond to whatever is going on. This is in…
I got emailed another one of these fancy info-graphics about work and this time it revolves around countries and the average amount of work their citizens do in a given week. You can find the graphic here (see an isolated version, here) and you can find its citations (which I’ve skimmed over, but most of…
Not too long ago Margaret Heffernan, a former CEO of multiple businesses, gave a talk during a TED conference about the “pecking order” of various businesses. Places where getting to the top, competing against one another, being the most productive and so on are valued above all else. There’s little (if any) time for talking…
Americana Meets Studies on Stress My new job is indeed very “fast paced”. There’s hardly room for a break and when I’m by myself (or might as well be) there’s almost no way to even feed myself. I’m not exactly clear on how the store I work at is legally getting away with this since…