Immigrant families tend to have deeply-held opinions on certain things. My parents had a really strong distrust of Western medicine. For perspective, I’ve taken ibuprofen maybe a handful of times in my life — it was reserved only for the most intense fevers. My family would instead rely on naturopathic…

Note: This article is part of a multi-part series on music for productivity. — Part 1 || Part 2 || Part 3 (you are here) — As we’ve explored in earlier in this series, music supports cognitive performance by modulating our mood and arousal. …

Note: This article is part of a multi-part series on music for productivity. — Part 1 || Part 2 (you are here) || Part 3 — We’re used to thinking about music as a one-way interaction: music influences us. It affects us in many ways, whether by lifting our mood…

While the defining paradigm shift in technology over the past few years has been that of data privacy rights, the next ethical movement will be over our freedom of attention. In other words, we’ve fought for transparency and regulation around how companies handle our information, but not around how they…

It’s safe to say that we live in a pretty absurd world. Turns out dopamine fasting is trending in the Bay Area, so that’s something. What is a dopamine fast? Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that mediates pleasure and is involved with reward and motivation circuits in the brain. It is released in response to…