A 2026 analysis of more than 215,000 moves by professional chess players found something deeply counterintuitive: faster decisions were consistently associated with better moves,...
Rethinking Decision Time: What Chess Reveals About Expertise and Hesitation
There is a small performance we often expect around serious decisions. The person should pause,...
The claim that self-approval beats popularity sounds like a fridge magnet, but the research on where self-worth comes from is unusually pointed: staking it...
Understanding the Value of Self-Approval Over Popularity
“Self-approval beats popularity” sounds like a motivational slogan—easy to agree with, yet often overlooked in daily life. However,...
When ByteDance moved to end its fortnightly six-day rota in 2021, a large share of its own staff objected rather than celebrated, because as...
When ByteDance Ended Its Fortnightly Six-Day Rota, Many Staff Objected
In the summer of 2021, ByteDance, the Chinese technology giant behind TikTok and Douyin, made...
Ireland’s data centres used 5 per cent of the country’s metered electricity in 2015, but by 2025 they were using 23 per cent —...
Data Centres’ Surging Share of Ireland’s Electricity Consumption
According to Ireland’s Central Statistics Office (CSO), data centres accounted for just 5% of the country’s metered...
Psychology says people who can’t throw out the crooked shelf they built themselves aren’t sentimental — fifty-five studies covering 5,454 people found that building...
Why We Keep the Crooked Shelf: The Psychology Behind Our Attachment
Every household seems to have one: a shelf that leans very slightly to the...