Category Archives: Psychology

Interesting Reads Postponed

Posted on May 5, 2008 by sim

Effective today, our team moved to a different office. The distance from the old one is less than four kilometers, but the difference is huge – unfortunately for the worse. The first and foremost reason being that this place, Karaportti, … Continue reading →

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Strategies to avoiding danger

Posted on Dec 28, 2005 by sim

Nobody wants to be a victim of a crime or other nasty incidents. While most people are still honest in that you don’t have to be constantly on high alert, some crime avoidance strategies are in order especially when you’re … Continue reading →

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Rating the underrated

Posted on Dec 4, 2005 by sim

I’ve always considered Ylioppilaslehti (a bimonthly Finnish student paper) as mostly boring, but the newest issue had one good article: Suomen yliarvostetuimmat ja aliarvostetuimmat: an article about the most overrated and the most underrated things in Finland. A few points … Continue reading →

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That’s what you think

Posted on Nov 23, 2005 by sim

In many cases the factual situation and what people think the situation is differ dramatically. This doesn’t sound like an issue per se, but it becomes a major problem when one realizes that most of our actions are based on … Continue reading →

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You put it there and no one will use it

Posted on Nov 20, 2005 by sim

I think it’s fair to say that when it comes to mundane things, people are lazy. Of course some people, including myself, prefer to call it optimization instead of laziness. I find one materialization of this optimization in myself whenever … Continue reading →

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