Author: Alonzo Texeira
Alonzo Texeira
Alonzo Texeira is an Editor at persuasive2014.org and a technology major at a California university with a sharp eye for where AI and human behavior intersect. A part-time writer with a full-time curiosity, Alonzo covers the ideas and innovations shaping the future of interactive technology
BJ Fogg, a behavioral scientist at Stanford, wrote an odd little book in 2003 that was largely ignored outside of…
A few months ago, I watched a six-year-old in a pediatrician’s waiting room go absolutely still in front of a…
Nowadays, a tiny, nearly embarrassing incident occurs in kitchens all over the world. With your phone in hand, you stand…
When you first notice it, you may be in a kitchen, watching a four-year-old use the serene muscle memory of…
After midnight, a certain kind of silence descends upon a home, only broken by the faint blue flicker of a…
Sometime in the middle of the afternoon, usually in the quiet moments between tasks, a certain feeling emerges. Something has…
The most peculiar thing about prescription bottles is how many of them remain empty. They are found in cabinets all…
Last spring, at 2:47 in the morning, a smoking cessation trial participant sent a message somewhere in a Stanford research…
Most of us have experienced a brief moment, but we hardly ever give it much thought. After checking the time…
These days, Xbox launch days are marked by a silent ritual that has nothing to do with waiting in line…