http://www.metafilter.com/tags/Optimal Posts tagged with 'Optimal' at MetaFilter. Sat, 15 Dec 2007 19:52:42 -0800 Sat, 15 Dec 2007 19:52:42 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/67480/Too%2Dtall Moreover, based on the empirical distribution of height and wages, the optimal height tax is substantial: a tall person earning $50,000 should pay about $4,500 more in <a href="http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/mankiw/files/Optimal_Taxation_of_Height.pdf">taxes</a> (pdf) than a short person earning the same income. Draw what inferences <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/magazine/09heighttax.html?ex=1354856400&en=7219befbfb8f6bfd&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss">you will</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.67480 Sat, 15 Dec 2007 19:52:42 -0800 economics height optimal taxation taxes utilitarian Pants! http://www.metafilter.com/28878/Flow%2DThe%2DPsychology%2Dof%2DOptimal%2DExperience A certain psychologist of Hungarian extraction, <a href="http://www.ccp.uchicago.edu/faculty/Mihaly_Csikszentmihalyi/html/" title="My interests include the study of creativity, especially in art; socialization; the evolution of social and cultural systems; and the study of intrinsically rewarding behavior in work and play settings. All of these topics are connected by a conceptual approach based on systems theory. ">Mihaly Csikszentimihaly</a>--<em>sounds like stoned sex-crazed muppet:</em> <em>Me High-ee! Chicks sent me highee!</em>--began by monitoring the activities and emotional states of talented adolescent artists with what became known as <a href="http://www.creativityatwork.com/articlesContent/Flow_eby.html" title="But What Do You Do All Day? Effort and Flow By Douglas Eby">experience sampling forms</a>, now available in a new, improved <a href="http://web.media.mit.edu/~intille/caes/index.htm" title="Open-Source Context-Aware Experience Sampling Tool for PDAS">hi tech version</a>. He found people reported the greatest satisfaction when <em>actively involved in a challenging task that stretches abilities, to the extent that time, space, and self-awareness become secondary to the accomplishment of the task.</em> He wrote a book about it, <a href="http://www.general-semantics.org/Books/CSR_flow.shtml" title="Institute of General Semantics: CSR: Review of Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience. by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Reviewed by Charlotte S. Read"><em>Flow</em></a><strong>:</strong></em> <a href="http://www.debateit.net/improvethought/flow1.htm" title="Flow Experience Excerpts and info from Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience By Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi"><em>The Psychology of Optimal Experience</em></a>, which flew off the shelves in the Self Help sections of bookstores everywhere--even though there were no easy steps nor <em>Idiots Guide To...</em> included beyond an academic enunciation of the parameters involved: the zone of experience in which Flow existed. <em>[More Within]</em> tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.28878 Fri, 10 Oct 2003 13:02:15 -0800 Csikszentimihaly Experience Flow Optimal y2karl