Be Careful with Your Good Mood

Erman Misirlisoy, PhD
6 min readNov 27, 2018
Photo by Mark Daynes on Unsplash

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.

William S. Burroughs

Happiness is a blindfold. When we have a smile on our face and a skip in our step, we may be vulnerable to unhealthy behaviors that we would otherwise avoid. It may sound depressing to say that even…

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Erman Misirlisoy, PhD

Research Leader (Ex-Instagram / Chief Scientist at multiple startups). Author of the User Insight Newsletter: https://userinsight.substack.com/