The Misconception about Money and Motivation, a good summary of the work by Dan Pink, Dan Ariely, and others.
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The John Biggs article on Why I’m Still Wearing My Apple Watch almost perfectly describes how I’m feeling about the watch right now. It is a very personal device, I’ve gotten attached to the little fellow, and I should probably start selling all my mechanical watches.
How to Get Yourself to Do Things. Hat tip: Alex.
Wearable gadgets portend vast health, research and privacy consequences, the Washington Post takes on the quantified self. I’m in the medium end of this, I track pretty much everything that’s easy, but no blood / hormone tests yet.
When You Lose Weight, Where Does it Go? I’ll be honest that I had no idea.
Sam Altman of YCombinator wrote a great post on the occasion of his thirtieth birthday, The days are long but the decades are short. There’s a lot of subtlety and nuance in each point, so even if you’ve read it already it’s worth another pass.
If you’re curious about quantum entanglement (and a type of synesthesia) at all, check out this week’s Invisibilia show on NPR called Entanglement.
The Atlantic has a set of 45 pictures that are both beautiful and shocking to commemorate Earth Day.
Have you heard of being meat drunk?
As a counterpoint to yesterday’s link to the Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, here’s a Washington Post story, Meet the man whose utopian vision for the Internet conquered, and then warped, Silicon Valley.
Cool distributed work article: Why I decided to go on a cowork vacation in Bali for a month .
The New Yorker has a great overview as Richard Stallman’s GNU Manifesto Turns Thirty.
DNSPerf is a cool service that measures the speed of different DNS providers, Cloudflare and WordPress.com rank very well.
Why Remote Work Thrives in Some Companies and Fails in Others, by Sean Graber in the Harvard Business Review.
Why are some organizations reaping benefits but others not? Conditions are seemingly ideal: More and more people are choosing to work remotely. By one estimate, the number of remote workers in the U.S. grew by nearly 80% between 2005 and 2012. Advances in technology are keeping pace. About 94% of U.S. households have access to broadband Internet — one of the most important enablers of remote work. Workers also have access to an array of tools that allow them to videoconference, collaborate on shared documents, and manage complex workflows with colleagues around the world. So what’s the problem?
Scott Berkun asks Why Isn’t Remote Work More Popular?
Here’s a great article about WordPress meetup communities around the world, including Singapore, Argentina, France, Croatia, India, Serbia, Malta, Norway, South Africa, Canada, Switzerland, Ireland, Estonia, Egypt, Poland, Belgium, and Slovakia.
Jenna Wortham writes on Trying to Live in the Moment (and Not on the Phone). I’ve been using the Moment app recently too, here’s my past week of usage. (I think it might count phone calls as usage.)