December 2024 Assorted Links

[Life] What Aladdin Should Have Wished For: There are three types of happiness: pleasure, enjoyment, and satisfaction.
[Parenting] This Is A Gift To Give Yourself (And Your Family): “Success is when your children want to be with you when they’re adults. How many people have all that bullshit, and their kids don’t come home for the holidays?”
[Psychology] How to spend 83% less money on a train improvement project and still get people to ask for the trains to be slowed down: My favorite story of thinking about crazy ideas that might actually work. If you like this, check out Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense by Rory Sutherland.
[Healthcare] How American Health Care Killed My Father: Long but great read about the American healthcare and health insurance system. It took me an hour.
[AI] The Gen AI Bridge to the Future: Generative UI will bridge us to the future of wearables.
[Marketing]: Nike ad