How Your Furniture Controls You
My family bought a treadmill several years ago. Like many families, we enthusiastically used it for a few weeks before the novelty ran out. It slowly faded out of our lives; I can’t remember the last time someone worked up a sweat on it. But, we still use the treadmill. Now, it’s a mainstay in…
Why We Should Invest in our Surroundings
I recently hooked up another monitor to my laptop at my home workspace and it’s added a lot of unexpected value to my day. It’s a simple addition really, most corporate offices provide their employees with two monitors. I’ve experienced the typical benefits an additional monitor promises to bring: my research experience while working has…
Behavior and Frame of Mind
I’ve been thinking about behavior change a lot recently. What is it that allows people to change a habit, something they’ve been doing for years, over a relatively short amount of time? There are hundreds of YouTube videos, self-help books, and academic studies that go into the process of behavior change, sometimes reporting conflicting data.…
A Starting Point
I enjoy writing. Whenever I write, I find that I am forced to flesh out my ideas, making them clearer. Writing is also incredibly cathartic, allowing me to express my thoughts and feelings about a given subject. I can logically order the jumbled mess inside my head. I have never undertaken a writing endeavor and…
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I am a second-year law student at UC Berkeley who enjoys reading about history, productivity, and policy.
I write about ideas from a variety of fields — history, law, politics, and business— to explore what we can learn from them.
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