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- The field, popularized by books like Nudge, aims to show how small policy tweaks can inspire people to make big changes. It's what gave us strategies like having people opt out of donating their organs, rather than in, or labeling garbage cans as "landfill" rather than "trash." All we need to be better, the Nudgists would say, is better choice architecture.
briandmyers · 3425 days ago · link ·
Sorry, very busy, so I didn't read the article, but my wife and I were discussing this concept the other day - how as humans, we don't have as many impediments to our survival as we used to, which leads a lot of us to getting fatter than we'd like to be. It's a good strategy (IMO) to artificially challenge ourselves, to compensate. She uses a fitbit for that; I use Ingress (a game that rewards walking), and a dog that needs regular exercise.