Category Archives: Psychology

Hacking your brain for fun

August 3, 2010 – 1:30 am

I just came back from Nolan’s latest creation, Inception, and I was completely blown away. The core of the very elaborate plot is the concept of dreaming and consciousness levels inside dreams, in particular taking advantage of the science-fiction concept of “shared dreams”. Not unlike in The Matrix, questions about “what is real, what is [...]

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Less is more: limiting choices grants better freedom

September 17, 2009 – 3:20 am

Let me start this post with the following TED talk. It lasts 20 minutes, and it’s a nice introduction to the argument of this post I am currently in the process of choosing a web framework for a project. Problem is: there are too many! Every single one does more or less what I need, [...]

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