Welcome to the Smarter.Blog Newsletter, a newsletter for improving how we think and act. I vividly remember an incident from a few years back when I was visiting India. I was traveling by bus and was sitting in the front row and watching the road and daydreaming nothing of significance, when I noticed the signal was red. And then my brain started screaming since the driver wasn’t slowing down at all. In fact, he kept going through the red signal. I was shocked and looked around but nobody seemed to give a damn about it, with perfect nonchalance. The driver knew that the signal was red, and noticed nobody coming in the other roads and so he didn’t care to stop. Since then I have seen this play out several times — people running the red light or even cars going down the wrong lane, like its not a big deal.
Tragedy of the Commons
Tragedy of the Commons
Tragedy of the Commons
Welcome to the Smarter.Blog Newsletter, a newsletter for improving how we think and act. I vividly remember an incident from a few years back when I was visiting India. I was traveling by bus and was sitting in the front row and watching the road and daydreaming nothing of significance, when I noticed the signal was red. And then my brain started screaming since the driver wasn’t slowing down at all. In fact, he kept going through the red signal. I was shocked and looked around but nobody seemed to give a damn about it, with perfect nonchalance. The driver knew that the signal was red, and noticed nobody coming in the other roads and so he didn’t care to stop. Since then I have seen this play out several times — people running the red light or even cars going down the wrong lane, like its not a big deal.