Monthly Archives: February 2009

Motivate yourself with “loss aversion”

I really enjoyed this story on “Prospect Theory,” or the idea that loss aversion can be an effective motivator in goals related to health improvement like weight loss and smoking cessation: “What we know about incentives is that people work a lot harder to avoid losing $10 than they will work to gain $10,” explains [...]

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Ubiquity

Take a few minutes this week to look at the Ubiquity plugin for Firefox. So far, I’ve spent just enough time with it to have my mind blown by the Quicksilver-like interface it wants to bring to web browsing. Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.

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It’s been quite a while…

Well… I’m not even sure what to say, except… Hello It’s almost 8a.m., my brain’s on the verge of shutting down right this moment. I just wanted to make this entry to say hello, and to let you know that we haven’t died. If you follow me on DeviantART then this is really going to [...]

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