Paul Robicheau for WBUR

Last weekend an interview with David Byrne (Talking Heads, Luaka Bop Records, collaborations with Twyla Tharp, Brian Eno, St. Vincent...) (Apparently the guy does not sleep) was featured on the Freakonomics radio show. In it he talks about the fact that humans have a built-in “negativity bias”, a survival trait that makes us tend to focus on the bad news and ignore the good. He describes how he's used collaboration, especially collaboration with really diverse people, to overcome his own negativity bias.

I've mentioned here before that one of his latest projects is a great online mag called, Reasons to Be Cheerful.

Podcast: David Byrne on Freakonomics