marginalium noun

the notes one makes in the margins.

A short note on

the economy of small pleasures

July 8, 2025

source: theconversation.com

by Dorian Minors

I did brain science at Cambridge. Now I'm a behaviour science professor. Read my shit.

The continued failure of the economy of small pleasures.

extrinsic incentives such as money or grades to learn [make it] harder to learn new related information when that incentive is gone … the learning outcome may be poorer due to the absence of reward

Actually, speaks a bit to the value of violence (or, rather, the lack thereof).

If you don’t do the thinking, the thinking will be done for you.

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