Adam Breckler

internet professional

Month: July, 2009

Flogs

Flog: Fake Blog
I was clicking through ads as i’ll often do when i’m bored and feel like costing spammers money when I stumbled across this out of control Flog advertising a get rich quick with twitter scheme.
The irony is that if you look at the “comments” at the bottom of the page, all of which [...]

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Hacking the Hedonic Treadmill Part 2: The “Scale Treadmill”

In my initial post on Hacking the Hedonic Treadmill I discussed the concept of Adaptation Level Theory and how happiness for all effective purposes is a relative, not an absolute measure of well-being and satisfaction.
Well, as it turns out, how we measure our own happiness is also a matter of relative scale.
Download: Deconstructing the Hedonic [...]