A gentler way

In Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman describes his research into the following quirk of human nature. If we obtain something desirable, and then lose it or have it taken away some time later, we are unhappier than we would have been had we never received it in the first place. The ‘something’ could be…

‘Net zero’, I predict, will be Environmental Phrase of the Year for 2021. It is easily misread as ‘not zero’, which is good in a way, because de facto they often mean the same thing. My NY resolution this year – which I’m hoping will last longer than usual, i.e. at least until the second…