Can Symbols affect behaviour? This newsletter highlights how language is inherently political and carries historical connotations that can influence human interactions. Words and symbols have both a denotative meaning and a set of connotations based on their usage history.
The problem is news has a design problem, bad design is a function of the broken news ecosystem. Now more than ever, we need further research to understand why the events of the past few years have significantly impacted the lives of people across the world.
This week TBR talks about the intricate pathway through which plastic ends up in waste and beyond is an unusual public policy problem. It affects around 2.2 Billion people living around the coastline, and the ramification from health, to ecological conservation are staggering.
Ms. Farheen in this week's TBR writes about how people have missed gender and feminine lens in innovating stuff.
As this year comes to a close, it is time to reflect and make resolutions for positive change next year. That got me thinking about the new-year resolutions, they are fascinating and not entirely a creation of the modern world (something I learnt recently).
This behavioural piece talks about mental model: Probability Thinking from the casebook of Sherlock Homes.
