Should We Dispense With Happiness? A Review of Martin Seligman's New Book, Flourish. Running through Flourish are two critical themes. The first is that positive psychology - the study of optimal human functioning - must be grounded in the most rigorous science. The second take-home message is one that many scholars pay lip service to but routinely set aside and even disdain - namely, that researchers don't exist solely to engage in abstract intellectual cogitations but have a calling to make the world a better place. (more)

Derek Siverson Brain Rules for Aging Well by John Medina ISBN:0996032673 - Current research on brain aging, and how to slow or reverse its effects. Be very social. Read 3+ hours per week. Intensely learn something new, especially a new language. Take dance lessons. Practice gratitude and mindfulness. Flood your mind with nostalgic memories. (more)

Flourish: A New Understanding of Happiness and Well-Being — and How to Achieve Them by Martin Seligman — review. What positive psychology is about – it goes beyond the treatment of depression and anxiety to ways in which we could all live more rewarding lives. (more)

A New Gauge Helps to See What’s Beyond Happiness. And why did some people keep joylessly playing bridge? Dr. Martin Seligman, an avid player himself, kept noticing them at tournaments. They never smiled, not even when they won. They didn’t play to make money or make friends. (more)

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Nat Eliason: How to Use Notion to Set, Track, and Hit Your Goals. Now, I’ve mostly left Airtable and Evernote entirely, and I’m almost entirely in Notion and Asana. (more)

Notion’s “angel round” at a $800M valuation 😲 | Product Hunt. Back in January, we penned Notion as one of the startups to keep an eye on in 2019. We also wrote about how our community loves Notion, and reference it as an app that changed their lives. Turns out, they might have been on the nose. Last night, The Information reported that the San Francisco based startup is raising $10M, hitting a wild $800M valuation with its new funding (that it’s referring to as an ‘angel round’). (more)

Khe Hy on Roam Research: A fresh, powerful (and buzzy) take on note-taking. In 2018, Evernote users began migrating to the “all purpose tool” Notion. However, barely a year later there’s a new kid on the block: RoamResearch creating a productivity geek’s own version of East Coast vs West Coast. (more)

Nat Eliason: Roam - Why I Love It and How I Use It. I’ve been deeply interested in personal knowledge management for almost 10 years now (more)

Matthias Melcher on Augmenting human intellect. With the help of 26 other annotators, I tried to understand more about Douglas Engelbart’s visionary text “Augmenting Human Intellect“, and especially to understand why some visions about amplification have not come true, despite his plausible argumentation (more)

Martin Bernstorff: Implementing an Idea-Management System. This post is for you if: (more)

Khe Hy: How I use Roam to take notes. The game-changer: Bi-directional links (more)

Matthias Melcher: Top ten tools. All my tools are Jane Hart’s category 1 (own personal and professional learning). As previously, I tagged them with LTM (Extension of Long-Term Memory), STM (Extension of Short-Term Memory and I/O (Input/ Output) (more)

Matthias Melcher: More gRSShopper. I have played quite a lot with gRSShopper because I like it (more)

aka Taxi Cab (more)

Robert Wright book (more)

The name I used for the types of Self Improvement process that nudges you to have "balance" in your life. (more)

LocalExchangeTradingSystems - attempt at local Currency http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LETS (more)

Fred Brooks in The Mythical Man-Month: I will contend that conceptual integrity is the most important consideration in system design. It is better to have a system omit certain anomalous features and improvements, but to reflect one set of design ideas, than to have one that contains many good but independent and uncoordinated ideas. Conceptual integrity in turn dictates that the design must proceed from one mind, or from a very small number of agreeing resonant minds. Auteur Theory

the non-GUI practice of interacting with a program by submitting PlainText to it, and getting PlainText output (more)