Between 1924 and 1932, a series of studies were carried out in Hawthorne Works, a Western Electric factory outside Chicago. The aim was to test if workers were more productive in brighter or dimmer lighting. Over the course of the study, a pattern emerged. When the lights were raised, the workers were more productive than […]
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Gamers, addiction, success, hysteria
Our CEO Anna Malmhake in Forbes on what she has learned from being a gamer since her teens. https://t.co/J8J53r3ZMI — Federico Bazan (@federicobazan87) March 15, 2018 Indo col 61: It has been a tough week for us nerds, thanks to those backstabbers at the World Health Organisation. We always felt safe in the knowledge that, as the […]
Banville, ass, parenthood, work
Speak for yourself, fucknuts. Family is family. The job is the job. https://t.co/UfrqSXs6fL — David Simon (@AoDespair) October 22, 2016 Indo col 60: John Banville famously once said that writers make bad fathers. Clearly, I am no John Banville, but I can see where he was coming from. I was a bad father long before […]
Love Island, IQ, war, Mars
Some girls want to be wined and dined… and some just want to feed the pigs. Here's what we learnt on day 26 🐷👉 https://t.co/uBNzQYfweX #LoveIsland pic.twitter.com/yoL3nM3kuB — Love Island (@LoveIsland) June 30, 2018 Indo col 59: Friends, come with me now as I chart a course directly into the all-consuming cultural maelstrom that is […]
Drying, running, oppressing, exams
A week after we #Repealedthe8th – the most momentous act for equality and freedom in the history of the state, #VHIWMM thought this was appropriate for the goodie bag. Not impressed #VHIMiniMarathon, not impressed. pic.twitter.com/QXZS6p38Fj — Gaye Edwards 💛💚💜 (@BrennanGaye) June 3, 2018 Indo col 58: It’s hard to beat a good day’s drying. I […]
The Moebius
Shift work is inhuman. There is something utterly unnatural about being awake all night. There are some who thrive on shift work, but they are a minority – most of us do it for the money, or because it suits our homelife, but very few do it because they like it. I only did nine […]
Bowing out
I loved Dublin. It’s the city of my birth, where my wife and I fell in love, and where we became parents. I spent four great years there from 1999-2003 and it broke my heart to leave. But I had to face the fact that I am a culchie. Like the salmon swimming back upstream […]
The Man Who Wanted To Know
It’s a curious thing to be adopted. You are a stranger in your own skin, in your own family, like a cuckoo that suddenly appears and everyone tries to pretend that you’re not different. But the difference is there every time you look at a family photo, or in the mirror – where did I […]
No, Yes, lightning, Wiseblood
Indo col 57: If you had asked me a week ago how my parents would have voted, I would have said they were a definite No. They were oldschool Catholics – for them abortion in any situation was murder. I can still remember my mother’s fury when in 1992 I tried to make the point […]
Tinder, incels, killings, Peterson
Indo col 56: There are many things in the modern world that scare and confuse me – GDPR, bitcoin, and whatever is going on in that Childish Gambino video to name but three. If any of these things come up in conversation, I usually just nod and say ‘indeed’ or possibly ‘but is it a […]
