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Reclaim Your Commute
Harvard Business Review: Every day, millions of people around the world face long commutes to work. In the United States alone, approximately 25 million workers spend more than 90 minutes each day getting to and from their jobs, and about 600,000 “mega-commuters” travel at least 90 minutes each way, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. In the United Kingdom, the average round-trip commute takes 54 minutes (up from 45 minutes in 2003), and in most of the world’s major cities, from Milan to Manila, it’s over an hour. And yet few people enjoy their commutes.
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Why You Shouldn’t Ask For an Opinion
The New York Times: Behavioral Scientist and “Pre-Suasion” Author Robert Cialdini shared at The New York Times’s New Work Summit the best way to get buy-in from potential collaborators. Read the whole story: The New York Times
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Thinking Strategically About Study Resources Boosts Students’ Final Grades
College students who reflected about how to best use classroom resources had higher final grades relative to their peers.
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Does Keeping Salaries Secret Hurt Team Performance?
New research suggests that keeping salaries secret can stifle employee motivation and performance.
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Could Solving This One Problem Solve All the Others?
Freakonomics: Our latest Freakonomics Radio episode is called “Could Solving This One Problem Solve All the Others?” The biggest problem with humanity is humans themselves. Too often, we make choices — what we eat, how we spend our money and time — that undermine our well-being. An all-star team of academic researchers thinks it has the solution: perfecting the science of behavior change. Will it work? Below is a transcript of the episode, modified for your reading pleasure. For more information on the people and ideas in the episode, see the links at the bottom of this post. And you’ll find credits for the music in the episode noted within the transcript. Read the whole story: Freakonomics
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A California Court for Young Adults Calls on Science
The New York Times: On a cloudy afternoon in the Bayview district, Shaquille, 21, was riding in his sister’s 1991 Acura when another car ran a stop sign, narrowly missing them. Both cars screeched to a halt, and Shaquille and the other driver got out. “I just wanted to talk,” he recalls. But the talk became an argument, and the argument ended when Shaquille sent the other driver to the pavement with a left hook. Later that day, he was arrested and charged with felony assault. He already had a misdemeanor assault conviction — for a fight in a laundromat when he was 19. This time he might land in prison. ...
