Habit Design by BJ Fogg

Nir Eyal, the author of Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products, has constructed a practical framework for designing better products. Tactics to drive engagement.

Habit design is a super power. If used for good, habit design can enhance people’s lives with entertaining and healthful routines. For all of us who are trying to create some positive behavior change in other people’s lives, this framework is key to understand.

These are some of the slides from the Habit Design Summit key speaker, Nir Eyal.

Refresh as Relational Intelligence

I think this service is great! It synchs with your calendar and sends you information about the people you are just about to meet. So that you’re prepared before talking to them.
(via Refresh App - An Instant Dossier to Refresh Your Relationships)

Source: http://refresh.io/

Stages of Development of Consciousness

Stages of Development of cultural consciousness - Integral Model

Stages of development continue to emerge as humanity, and human consciousness, matures. The Mythical Stage evolved 5000 years ago, and the next Stage, the Rational one, did not emerg… — Stages of Development of cultural consciousness - Integral Model

Stages of development continue to emerge as humanity, and human consciousness, matures. The Mythical Stage evolved 5000 years ago, and the next Stage, the Rational one, did not emerge until the European Enlightenment about 300 years ago. Pluralism? only evolved about a hundred years ago, and not obviously until the LSD-enhanced 1960s. And Integral? Sheesh, didn’t see that emerge until the 1930s or so, and it’s still rare.

via The Examiner

Source: http://www.examiner.com/article/stages-of-...

Generation Like by Douglas Rushkoff →

What happens when the quest for teenage identity occurs online? Watch Douglas Rushkoff documentary: Generation “Like” on Frontline.

Addicted to the Internet

How would you cure someone if they were addicted to the internet? Or best, how would you know by yourself if you were addicted to the internet?can you cure yourself?

In this short documentary, we see that China declared in 2008 that internet addiction as a clinical disorder. Here a bootcamp-style treatment center for young men addicted to video games.

But this video and the movie ‘Her’ (see next post about the guy that falls in love with her operating system - virtual assistant) have left me with the question on what to do after knowing you’ve spent too much time behind the computer and it might be affecting your cognitive and social skills? In the metro, in the bus stop, in the airport, I look around and everyone is lonely, looking at their screens. In all the coffee shops, everyone is behind a laptop or with a tablet. Babies with cell phones. Nannies with ipods.

Is this solitude time an opportunity to go within? to learn? to expand? to connect? to create? to discuss?

Can you identify when your mind wanders so much that you don’t know where your thoughts are? why are you reading this? why are you watching this video? is this something you planned on doing or did you stumbled into this as all the other hundreds of unimportant facts you find?

via Pedro Reyes by the New York Times

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/10000...

The Power of Rituals

Professor Francesca Gino found that rituals indeed alleviate and reduce grief, even among people who don’t inherently believe in the efficacy of rituals. Further experiments showed that ritualistic behavior also enhances the experience of cons… — Professor Francesca Gino found that rituals indeed alleviate and reduce grief, even among people who don’t inherently believe in the efficacy of rituals. Further experiments showed that ritualistic behavior also enhances the experience of consuming food.

Source: http://www.pinterest.com/pin/5425430863309...