Jeff Bezos - Amazon on Two Pizza Teams Culture Happyness By Design 2020-09-16 | Jeff Bezos gives an efficient model of team size, communication models and how to lead well.For more great stuff on improving your happiness and productivity, check out https://www.happyness.design/
Attention Economy - James Williams Happyness By Design 2020-09-23 | Attention economy, by James Williams. In this brief animation featuring audio from a 2017 lecture at the RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) in London, Williams makes the case that the consolidation of the ‘attention economy’ to just a handful of companies is an unprecedented and deeply fraught human experiment – and one that demands active, attentive resistance. James Williams, a doctoral candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute and a former Google employee, the primary aim of personalised tech is to keep users coming back by any means necessary – and often in a way that encourages empty distraction.To find out more about how to improve your happiness and become more productive, check out the research at: https://happyness.design#thesocialdilemma
Richard Feynman: Knowing versus Understanding in Science Happyness By Design 2020-09-12 | The difference between knowing and understanding. It gives a good insight into how a theoretical physicist can hold several different theories in their head to explain a phenomenon, but not know which is the correct explanation.He also gives a great example of ancient Mayan astronomers who were able to predict astronomical phenomena very accurately but had no underlying theory for what the physical reality that produced these phenomena, e.g. they did not know what the moon was but they could accurately predict its phases.
Muhammad Ali on the most important thing in life - time, good works and God Happyness By Design 2020-09-04 | Muhammad Ali on the most important thing in life - time, good works and God. This talk was given when Ali went to visit Great Britain where he famously said, "I'm going to dedicate my life to using my name and popularity to helping charities, helping people, uniting people."To find out more about how to improve your happiness and become more productive, check out the newsletter: https://happyness.design/tryit1#happiness #productivity #mindfulproductivity #thegreatest #ali #happynessbydesign #happyness
The Happiness Lab - Beat Your Isolation Loneliness by #DrLaurieSantos #happyness Happyness By Design 2020-09-04 | Many of us are being advised to stay at home and avoid social contact to help slow the spread of the coronavirus. Human interaction is a vital component of happiness, so Dr Laurie Santos asks Stanford's Professor Jamil Zaki to explain his research into how we can maintain meaningful links to our loved ones, friends and colleagues even if we can't be in the same room with them.If you have a question you want answered on a future coronavirus bonus episode then tweet @lauriesantos To find out more about how to improve your happiness and become more productive, check out the newsletter: https://happyness.design/tryit1#TheHappinessLab #NewHope #DrLaurieSantos #Happiness #Howtobehappy #audiopodcast #Happypodcast #happynessbydesign #happinessbydesign
Happiness Habits by Sonja Lyubomirsky - Developing Happy Habits Happyness By Design 2020-09-03 | Sonja Lyubomirsky is one of the world's experts on happiness. Sonja is an American professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside and author of the bestseller The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want, a book of strategies backed by scientific research that can be used to increase happiness.With thanks to Sonja Lyubomirsky and Action for Happiness for the talk.This is a recording of the Zoom talk she gave on 03/09/2020. To find out more about how to improve your happiness and become more productive, check out our newsletter: https://happyness.design/tryit1
