Sleeping less doesn’t make you more productive. It just makes you more tired.

America is facing a war on whimsy, and we are losing ground daily. A monster pervades this nation, stealing sleep from schoolkids, tearing down national treasures and locking us in our homes to toil behind computer screens: efficiency. We have marched to the anthem of productivity since the Industrial Revolution; we think of children working away with coal-slathered faces in factories and believe we have evolved as a society. But I posit that as soon as we pilfered the chisel

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.

When making any tough decision, the key is not to be overly exploratory or exploitative.

Where commentary on moms’ satisfaction goes wron g

The author spent days in a room with no light. Who would he be when he emerged?

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?

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.

What to do about the deadly misfits among us? First, recognize the problem.

An instructive new biography of Peter Matthiessen chronicles his many paradoxical attempts to escape who the world expected him to be.

Recognition for the work and other good things that we do in our lives is something we all hope to receive at some point. I've had many great bosses and mentors who were very good at offering the occasional pat on the back for a job well done. I've also had those who either could not or would not offer any kind of recognition for a job well done, no matter the circumstances. We've all been there.

Our personalities are strongly formed by memories. Among the most significant may be those whose details have faded.

A paradigm shift is coming as evidence emerges that we are more than our brains. Related : Plausibility of consciousness' continuity beyond death (UII w/Claude)

DM Good morning. It seems the most important skill required to gain the full benefit (... even threshold value) from A.I. LLMs is "rigorous inquiry," ...which is typically propelled by wide-spectrum, insatiable curiosity. Conversely and paradoxically, this seems the least available (and respected?) skill within the general population; and perhaps even amongst most professionals. Furthermore, future trends seem unfavorable: ... as fast, easy, superficial brain food is increasi

A week of ostentatious bigotry in American politics

Everyone sooner or later faces a dark night of the soul. Don’t hide from yours; learn from it.