#psychology

http://blog.hut8labs.com/coding-fast-and-slow.html

This is a superb breakdown of why estimating software projects is a nightmare. It's even worse at a...

http://www.mauronewmedia.com/blog/2011/02/why-angr...

Absolutely superb analysis of all the little details that have gone into the hit game. Lessons to b...

http://danariely.com/2010/12/15/locksmiths/

Here's an interesting thing to think about, particularly in light of the fact, that at my company, f...

http://danariely.com/2010/09/05/humans-and-the-sli...

Even slime mould can make decisions, it turns out. Sounds like it may be smarter than some humans.

http://darkpatterns.org/

A listing of intentionally bad design patterns - tricks websites use to get you to do things that th...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-10957590

Something that's been at the back of my mind recently: good fictional role models for boys.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howabou...

Architectures of control, right here. Nice.

http://tigerbeatdown.com/?p=731#more-731

A response piece to Clay Shirky's article the other month about women not self-promoting, and the re...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/feb/16/sex-...

Apparently looking at lots of porn really *isn't* healthy for human relationships. Who knew?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/3304496/Be-l...

I shall work on this. I'm pretty relaxed, but I'm not as observant as I could perhaps be. Still, i...

http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2009/10/on...

A bunch of leading psychologists give their answers to the above question. It's interesting what's...