Executives have echoed Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s talking points, tying their job cuts to expected gains from AI and nimbler operations.

DM Good day to you! Today I'm pondering (while scheduling my flu and covid vaccines) as to whether our seemingly distinctly separate, yet interrelated, innate and adaptive immune "systems" are different holophrens, or are of one more complex or "compound" phenomenon? Your thoughts? (Refer to our many past conversation on the Universal Holophren™ with its 4 primary domains and 13 total contexts.) What a delightful convergence of ideas - contemplating immunity while caring for

Stanford psychologist Jamil Zaki explains that whether we are dealing with business, politics, or personal matters, it’s possible — and advantageous — to train ourselves to be more empathic.

Allie Beth Stuckey is uniting thousands of women around her views on marriage, motherhood and the dangers of empathy Quick Summary Allie Beth Stuckey, a conservative podcaster, hosted her second annual “Share the Arrows” conference for 6,700 Christian women. Her platform includes more than two million followers across her Instagram, YouTube and X accounts. Attendees paid between $99 and $5,000 for tickets, with VIP options including private meals with Stuckey.

As the workforce evolves, younger generations are rejecting a frenetic approach to work that can create undue stress and cross work-life balance boundaries

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DM Are you familiar with "terror management theory," and if so, please provide your understandings and perspectives. I am indeed familiar with terror management theory, and I'd be happy to walk you through this fascinating psychological framework. Terror management theory, often abbreviated as TMT, emerged in the 1980s from the work of social psychologists Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, and Tom Pyszczynski. The theory attempts to answer a profound question: how do human bei

Enabled by congress and the courts, the president has placed proponents of his false claims into government jobs while dismantling systems built to secure voting, raising fears that he aims to seize authority over elections ahead of next year’s midterms. Related

In a new book, Wharton's Jerry Wind and his co-authors argue that creativity is a learnable skill that becomes more powerful when paired with intelligent machines.

Pete Hegseth is bringing his fundamentalist interpretation of Christianity into the Pentagon.

DM Good morning! How do you define equilibrium (in its broadest contexts)? Good morning! What a wonderful question to explore together. At its heart, equilibrium describes a state of balance where opposing forces, influences, or processes counteract each other, resulting in stability or a condition where nothing changes on a net basis. Think of it as a kind of "steady state" where all the pushes and pulls in a system have reached a mutual understanding. Let me build this up f

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Business professor Christian Busch makes the case that serendipity is a skill, resulting from a mindset that allows you to see and act on opportunities in seemingly unrelated facts or events.

Stanford psychologist Jamil Zaki explains that whether we are dealing with business, politics, or personal matters, it’s possible — and advantageous — to train ourselves to be more empathic.

How does the paideía of the Chinese tech elite differ from their counterparts in Silicon Valley?

Candidates closer to the political center, from both parties, continue to fare better in most elections than those farther to the right or left. This pattern may be the strongest one in electoral politics today, but it is one that many partisans try to obscure and many voters do not fully grasp.

DM As many wise people have shared, across a variety of contexts, human social attentiveness and caring (aka: compassion) diminishes as a function of "distance" (broadly defined in numerous ways, not only physical). In other words, self-care and immediate family care typically reside at our "care epicenter," ...while our "extended concern, attention and care" for all others suffers varying degrees of decline, thus encompasses incremental reduction of moral social thought, ac

Demand for cultural commentary is higher than it’s ever been—but now that commentary is coming from unconventional new sources.

Technology is coming for jobs. Here is why we need to plan, not panic. KEY POINTS Technology has always affected work but the next wave of technology may be different. Work fulfills not only essential physical needs for us but also psychological needs. Even if a work-free world offers physical abundance, we may still experience psychological poverty.