John MacGaffey

⛰ Work 2.0: The Obstacles You Don’t See — Hidden Brain This podcast episode is well worth your time. It's a great reminder that one of the most powerful ways to market your ideas is to appeal to others' emotional desires: Introducing new ideas is hard. Most

🧬 Complete Human Genome Sequenced for First Time In Major Breakthrough — VICE An amazing scientific milestone: Scientists have mapped an entire unbroken human genome for the first time, a milestone that completes the groundbreaking work started by the Human Genome Project decades ago, according to a motherlode of new studies published

🚚 $87.50 for 3 Minutes: Inside the Hot Market for Videos of Idling Trucks — NY Times When trying to nudge behavior in a more environmentally-friendly direction, is a carrot or a stick better? As it turns out, you can use both: NYC is rewarding citizens for reporting idling trucks, to

♻️ Forget ‘Reduce, Reuse, Recycle — The Atlantic Derek Thompson has a thought-provoking interview with Saul Griffith, an entrepreneur and MacArthur Grant recipient. He recently published a book that tries to shift the conversation around climate change towards much bolder ideas. Griffith is clearly someone who thinks about the world in a

Tomorrow is the six month anniversary of the start of this blog, so I wanted to take the opportunity to briefly reflect, as well as announce some changes to my publishing format going forward. Six Months of Writing So far, I've published 173 posts, not including the weekly