by Jamie Miles | Jan 5, 2021 | Articles & Guides
At a glance Based on the reader question: Can we talk about memory? I’ve been disheartened by the constant feeling that I have a sieve brain, and wondered how you and the team made things stick at Oxford? – Lucas, Canada Learn the evidence-based way to recall...
by Jamie Miles | Jan 3, 2021 | True Stories & Reflections
The request was in Italian, so we let our inquisitive smiles hang while our friend listened and translated the lady’s words into English. She was asking if we could repeat our performance from the top, so she could film it. The triad was born in 2016 in the seaside...
by Jamie Miles | Dec 15, 2020 | Articles & Guides
At a glance Based on the reader question: In ‘Disciplined by Design’, I was familiar with how our environment shapes our actions, but I never connected that to how my phone layout can change my default behaviour, or that we look at our phones on average every 12...
by Jamie Miles | Dec 13, 2020 | True Stories & Reflections
As a child, hearing the call of nature during the middle of the night felt life threatening. My imagination had decided that vampires were lurking in the dark, and not the sparkling sort that would have boys and girls swooning come the twilight of the new millennium,...
by Jamie Miles | Dec 9, 2020 | True Stories & Reflections
Jamie Miles’ message to TEDxKazimierz 2016 is to ask whether lessons, wisdom and principles in our culture – from Plato to Pokémon – can inspire people to tackle one’s ambitions. Transcript Hello, during my time at Oxford, working at Google and...
