research

software development concepts

Complaint-Driven Development

If I haven’t blogged much in the last year, it’s because we’ve been busy building that civilized discourse construction kit thing I talked about. (Yes, that’s actually the name of the company. This is what happens when you put me in charge of naming things. Pinball

By Jeff Atwood ·
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psychology

Buying Happiness

Despite popular assertions to the contrary, science tells us that money can buy happiness. To a point. Recent research has begun to distinguish two aspects of subjective well-being. Emotional well-being refers to the emotional quality of an individual's everyday experience — the frequency and intensity of experiences of joy,

By Jeff Atwood ·
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