Martin Nowak, a mathematical biologist, concludes The Evolution of Cooperation with the following winning strategy: What I find very interesting in these games of conditional reciprocity, direct and indirect reciprocity, we can make the point that winning strategies have the following three properties:  they must be generous, hopeful and forgiving. MORE >>

What is it like to be fully alive, right now, engaged with what you are doing? That's the psychology of flow. When the happiness and creativity expert Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi was studying how painters work, he noticed an odd thing. When their painting was going well they didn't care about getting tired, hungry or uncomfortable, they just carried on. MORE >>

Shimon Schocken is a professor and founding dean of the Efi Arazi School of Computer Science at IDC Herzliya in Tel Aviv. He starts out with some of his life story, introducing us to his grandfather, Salman Schocken, who dropped out of school aged 14 to help feed the family. ” He’s half-joking, if that. ” So what did they do? MORE >>

I had several great conversations over the course of last week’s #mLearnCon that triggered some interesting thoughts. Here’s the first: I was talking with someone charged with important training: nuclear. These converged for me in what seemed an interesting way. CTA is highly effective, but also very complex. What think you? MORE >>

Photo: Ryan Lash. Remember Y2K? Jamie Drummond starts by taking us back to the most anticipated year in human history: 2000. “Remember that? Y2k, the dotcom bubble… the deep-down inchoate yearning that our millennium moment should mean more than a two and some zeros.” For the few people who don’t have them memorized (i.e., MORE >>