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As you’re tapping, scrolling, and swiping on your phone, you probably don’t give much thought to the fact that your apps are consuming electricity — just that they’re chipping away at your battery life.
It’s engaging. It’s hopeful. It pushes the plot forward.
“Only a quarter of young adults are financially literate. You don’t want to overwhelm them with terrible advice.” -John Mcarthy
Before you click away, disappointed that I brought up something as practical and boring as time management, hear me out. My intent is not to crush your spirits.
The average U.S. iPhone owner uses 1–2 gigabytes of LTE data per month, according to some studies. That data comes at an energy cost that’s opaque, because we can’t see it directly.
You can’t look to your peers in the industry, because all they’re going to tell you is that they are killing it, crushing it, changing the world.
These simple survey measures seem credible. But according to psychologists, happiness and life satisfaction do not coincide. Life satisfaction has a cognitive component – individuals have to step back to assess their lives – while happiness reflects positive and negative emotions that fluctuate.
In other words, happiness may be an element achieved by:
The challenges and struggles of the hero’s journey exist for a reason: They help you and your business grow.
The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy estimated in a 2012 study that the energy impact of data is far greater than previously anticipated.
In real terms it is about 5.12 kilowatt hours per gigabyte of data consumed. It also uncovered where most of that cost is incurred: cloud providers.
In order to get everyone on the same page, with the right incentives, we have to accomplish a few things:
The “preference-based” perspective starts from the idea that people are better off when their reality matches better what they themselves consider to be important.
I hope the contrast in these stories help to highlight what we’ve learned:
The more lightweight you keep an idea, the quicker it gets executed and the faster you get a feel for whether or not you should continue down the same road.
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