Reading the great indoors by Emily anthes while outdoors. A book about how buildings & the design of spaces affect our behavior. The exact seat I picked is placed between two different steroes playing different music probably destroying my reading comprehension (and my enjoyment of the music)

Hat tip to @acjsissons.bsky.social for posting this into my feed.

But in my view the performance gap of heat pumps, insulation and other green tech is not a niche issue, or at least shouldn't be!

This report shows performance gaps can be as big as 50%!!!

Other papers show more! 1/2

Had a nice day to myself so spent it engaging seriously with Chater's and Lowenstein's S frame vs I frame papers and resulting work from BIT and Irish EPA in these areas.

Working on a blog post but wanted to share one thought to bounce around with people on here. 1/n

The national science and technology committee published a blueprint for the use of social & behavioral sciences to advance evidence based policymaking in the US.

Smartly calls for just requiring these evidence types, doing so through grant scoring and grant spending. And creating senior posts. 1/2

I'm not sure if there is a dark pattern term for this but my baby monitor just sent me a notification titled "Alert" while my child was asleep.

Where did this notification lead? To an upsell opportunity for a free trial of their premium service.

This destroys customer trust! #baddesign