Keeping doors open in dating and beyond

This video was produced by Spark Creative and Diamond Consultants — thanks

A few weeks ago I had the privilege of hanging out with the gang from Radio Lab. We had some informal chats about research and as a consequence I decided to try and conduct a few 5 minute interviews with different researchers about one exciting project.

I liked the outcome of the first few, so I decided to make it into a podcast… (more…)

Do we get to attached to stuff?

Moving and unpacking (which is what we have been doing), is a good test of attachment.

This video was produced by Spark Creative and Diamond consultants — thanks

Houses are very personal to many people, and often making decisions about houses and moving include strong elements of attachment (the endowment effect?) to the house and to the stuff that fills it up.

Here is a short interview with the nice people who are selling us their home about their feelings for the house:

And an interview about their feelings about getting rid of stuff:

After 10 years at MIT, this is my first official day at Duke, and it is wonderful to be here. MIT was wonderful in many ways but it was time to look for new adventures and I am delighted that I found a new home at Duke.

Duke is also where I got my PhD, and coming back feels like being a student again. The one odd thing about this move is that my advisers and teachers from my PhD years will now be my colleagues, and I don’t think I will ever be able to see them in this new role. I think that advisers are a bit like parents—they are in this role forever. But feeling like a student again is a wonderful thing. I get to feel caring, warmth, and I get to look forward to many discussions over coffee with my new colleagues.

It is wonderful to be back.

So this is it. We are moving into a new house in a few weeks, now the question is what we should fix, and to what degree …

Can it be that we focus too much on gas prices? Relative to other increases in expenses, I suspect that we do!

I am going to try to have phone “office hours” with the help of Learn from my life

I am not sure sure how it will work out but I am looking forward to trying it out. If you have the time please join us…