Leaving your kids a world without wild animals feels like a special tragedy.Wild Ones – absolutely fantastic read about wilderness, legacy, and being human.
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Lip Sync-Off: John Krasinski vs. Jimmy Fallon
I’ve never been more attracted to John Krasinski than when I was watching this. And as a girl who had a real Jim Halpert phase, that is saying something.
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After I get an assignment at work
If a brand is making a promise that you’re going to feel better about yourself if you buy it, they’re making a false promise. Human beings metabolize their purchases very quickly. … This is an element of what social psychologists call “the hedonic treadmill”: If you’re always looking to validate yourself and get satisfaction from buying stuff or having a bigger house, then you’re on an endless, addictive treadmill. There’s no enduring satisfaction to this. If a brand’s only purpose is to get you on that hedonic treadmill, it might be good for business in the short run, but in the long run, you’re doomed. If you look at the components of long-term well-being, it has nothing to do with material goods. Once you’re past a certain level of material well-being, people’s long-term happiness and wellbeing is about having deep personal relationships, believing in something larger than themselves, and doing something meaningful that they enjoy.
— Dan Pink on the psychology of consumer culture and how marketers manipulate it. Pair with the science of whether money can buy you happiness. (via explore-blog)
whenever i have to sit in on a conference call
and we end up talking in circles the whole time,
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We have entered a new age of fulfillment, in which the great dream is to trade up from money to meaning.
the dreamiest.
