Less Choice == Better?
October 9th, 2007I found this article & video about a talk from Harvard psychologist, Dan Gilbert, way interesting. According to his research, happiness has little to do with the things your brain leads you to believe will make you happy like material possessions. He says that having limited choices can actually lead to more happiness than more choice.
There’s a video at the bottom of the page that I highly recommend!
October 21st, 2007 at 10:27 PM Hey dude. I actually read an interesting piece a little while ago on the Intel research blog about how the principle of "less is more" can be applied to the design of parallel programming environments. It details a psychology experiment that explores the topic of choice and then expands the ideas when discussing the tools and languages used for parallel computation. Anyway, here's the link: http://blogs.intel.com/research/2007/10/parallel_programming_environme.html It's a pretty short read, but there's a follow up post linked at the bottom with more detail.