Archive for May, 2010

Making things ten times cheaper

Something to ponder for the social sector (thanks to Clay Shirky):
“Dr. Amy Smith is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, where she runs the Development Lab, or D-Lab, a lab organized around simple and cheap engineering solutions for the developing world.
Among the rules of thumb she offers for […]

Finally: My formula for happiness

New research reported by behavioural economist Daniel Kahneman, shows a fascinating distinction: “money doesn’t buy you experiential happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you [the experience of] misery.”  Check out Kahneman’s TED Talk here.
Kahneman explains that the research from the USA shows people’s moment to moment feelings of happiness increase as their income increases, […]