Why do so many New Years resolutions fail?

Until recently, psychologists believed that self-control—the ability to stick to and ultimately achieve long-term goals—worked like a muscle. Success was about whether you had enough willpower to achieve your goals. But new research suggests that keeping our resolutions depends more on the situations we choose to put ourselves in.

Psychology and other soft sciences shouldn’t get too fond of analogies or their theories.  They liked this so much that for decades, tons of papers were written about this explained human nature.

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Architectural Digest: Interior Race Theory

When we talk about diversity in design and architecture, there’s often a call for decolonizing the space. Everyone is fully aware that the landscape of the field needs to change, but what about rebuilding the foundation?

I might enjoy living in a yurt or a wattle-and-daub mud hut, but this article is dumb.  When I was in college, the engineering students thought that the architecture students were working harder than we were.  It looks like Diversity, Inclusion and Equity has infected their programs.  It doesn’t take many diversity students to ruin a field since the student can never be criticized.

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