The fact that there's no "happiness landmark" for contributing to society or the lives of others (besides friends and family) makes me sad.
No one is answering with things like "I nursed a bird back to health" or "I helped a refugee family settle in"?
edit: There are 15 answers in the bottom-right corner of the "Friends and Social" island which more or less fit this, but still a tiny fraction of the responses
Sometimes it's fine to be content with trivial things. Sometimes that's all you've got. It isn't wrong to be grateful and happy when small things happen for you. A lot of us should practice appreciating it more, in my opinion.
And frankly, the bigger things, the more substantial things; those are fewer and farther between. They're harder to populate a map like this with. They're certainly preferably in some ways, but realistically, it's not the primary stuff of surveys like this.
Haha, speaking of simple pleasures. One of my favourite experiences to have these days is reading these with my son.
Some of my top strips are the ones where Calvin and Susie Derkins are grown up and Calvin is having successive crises about everything she says or does.
It doesn't look very graphics-intensive, yet runs at about 2FPS on Safari, on my 3.8GHz quad core i5. The site's performance could use an investigation by a software developer.
Sounds like something is off somewhere indeed, because on mobile safari it is running very smoothly for me. Cannot tell the exact FPS, except that it is at least 60 or more.
Tried it with Firefox running on the same machine and it's fine. Looks like the dev forgot to test with desktop Safari, or my version doesn't support a critical graphics API.
What’s with being a parent is one of 5 qualifiers of a person? My answer would be - happy every day that I didnt have children. I’m curious if there is correlation.
It looks like the Physical & Active Hobbies sector is populated exclusively by books in the northeast portion and video games in the southwest. It might be a direct swap with the Gaming & Virtual Worlds sector, which contains some physical activity events.
I for one am looking forward to retirement. I am planning on being high all the time, gardening and yelling at children passing by my property. Growing my hair and beard, wearing a bandana and a tie-dyed shirt and paying for my coffee in quarters in a wooden treasure box I carry as a purse. The goal is to liberate the crazy.
> But research is showing that social media and smartphones have made us addicted to screens from a young age. It’s taken a toll on how much time we spend together
Agree completely, but it has also lead to widely held pessimistic beliefs like
> But how do we find meaning when the climate is warming, politics is broken, and technology serves profit over people? We can’t think about thriving; we're merely surviving.
I anticipate downvotes, but I seriously suggest reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlightenment_Now for some perspective about long term positive trends, and insights into why we over weigh short term negative news to the detriment of our mental health.
I played with the map a little bit. I think its cool at the first glance. What is missing is how it necessarily applies to me, user? I can understand that probably what makes people truly happy universally is applicable to me. But probably could use some quick guidance. You say it in your description - story, although this moment is buried in longer description of methodology. I also had to figure out on my own that each individual response is example of what can make me happy. Still, I think this map has potential for more cool features base don this data.
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Also, there should be an option to just get the story as text.
Extracted (by Claude) from https://github.com/the-pudding/happy-map/blob/main/src/data/...
No one is answering with things like "I nursed a bird back to health" or "I helped a refugee family settle in"?
edit: There are 15 answers in the bottom-right corner of the "Friends and Social" island which more or less fit this, but still a tiny fraction of the responses
Ate pizza? Made plans to go to a casino? Cut your hair? Come on.
And frankly, the bigger things, the more substantial things; those are fewer and farther between. They're harder to populate a map like this with. They're certainly preferably in some ways, but realistically, it's not the primary stuff of surveys like this.
Some of my top strips are the ones where Calvin and Susie Derkins are grown up and Calvin is having successive crises about everything she says or does.
I brought a surprise!
Let's hope it's a divorce...
https://i.redd.it/myocdlddt02d1.jpeg
So yeah, interesting indeed.
Children/family are mostly containing answers such as "My son visited me on Mother's Day.", which you can't really cause yourself.
It looks like the Physical & Active Hobbies sector is populated exclusively by books in the northeast portion and video games in the southwest. It might be a direct swap with the Gaming & Virtual Worlds sector, which contains some physical activity events.
> But research is showing that social media and smartphones have made us addicted to screens from a young age. It’s taken a toll on how much time we spend together
Agree completely, but it has also lead to widely held pessimistic beliefs like
> But how do we find meaning when the climate is warming, politics is broken, and technology serves profit over people? We can’t think about thriving; we're merely surviving.
I anticipate downvotes, but I seriously suggest reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlightenment_Now for some perspective about long term positive trends, and insights into why we over weigh short term negative news to the detriment of our mental health.