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Planners, online and physical, are ways people keep track on their schedule and time. ARACELY JIMENEZ/THE STATESMAN

Gambling our time away

Saffi Hadi April 23, 2017
When choosing how to spend your time, the constraint on information is tight and you can’t minimize your losses, so I am sorry to inform you but you’re a gambler.
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New York Times journalist Charles Duhigg speaks at the Ohio State University Center for Operational Excellence in 2013. FISHERCOE/FLICKR VIA CC BY-SA 2.0

Sending your life into an identity loop

Saffi Hadi March 26, 2017
How do we explain when students (*cough* me *cough*) sleep an extra half hour knowing they’ll be late for class?
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Barry Schwartz, author of The Paradox of Choice, delivers a TEDx talk in Amsterdam in 2011. BILL HOLSINGER-ROBINSON FLICKR VIA CC BY 2.0

The paradox of choice

Saffi Hadi November 13, 2016
With more options we can choose from so much more. But that may not be true; more choice may in fact be paralyzing.
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