The definition of hybrid work must go beyond an outdated discussion of where work is being done.

We can’t assume friendships will just happen — we have to make them happen.

There’s a tradition around many Thanksgiving dinner tables that’s as consistent as pumpkin pie: the family stories that get told year after year. Sometimes these stories are funny; sometimes they make us roll our eyes. No matter how we feel about them, we rarely pause to consider how these stories shape who we are and how we view the world. This week, we revisit a favorite 2024 conversation about family storytelling with psychologist Robyn Fivush. Then, in a new installment o

Business depends on innovation, but what makes it accelerate or stagnate over time? Thanks Kimberly!

Government-spec’d glory projects produce tech demos. Enduring progress demands a better way forward. Counterpoints KEY TAKEAWAYS OF FIRST LINK ABOVE: In this op-ed, Blake Scholl, CEO of Boom Supersonic, argues that government-led “glory projects” ultimately hurt the aerospace industry they were meant to advance. He writes that both the Apollo and Concorde programs chased prestige over practicality, producing technological marvels with no sustainable path forward. Scholl belie

At the foundation of America’s progress movement are immigrants who still believe this country can build. KEY TAKEAWAYS In October, the Roots of Progress Institute organized Progress Conference 2025 to connect people and ideas in the progress movement. In this dispatch from the conference, writer and RPI fellow Afra Wang explores how immigrant founders are driving America’s new era of “physical dynamism.” She finds that America’s capacity to build — and to believe in building

New special issue “The Engine of Progress” is out now.

He increasingly felt like he was wasting his time as a lawyer. Now, he hopes he can continue practicing his new profession until he’s 70.

From 2019 to 2024, the average number of minutes worked on Fridays fell by about 90 minutes in remote jobs.

By aligning the pursuit of business objectives with the meeting of human needs, companies can tap into powerful emotional forces in their current cultural situations.

When we routinely default to an attitude of mistrust, they create a negative loop that undermines relationships and hinders change.

A new study from Wharton faculty explores how AI can extract personality traits from facial images — and what that means for your career.

A new AI tool promises to improve social interactions but instead makes them worse.

DM Please offer your perspectives on these excerpts from Joe Manchin's recently published autobiography, "Dead Center:" Here's the first excerpt for your consideration: "Throughout our nation’s history, extreme party politics have repeatedly threatened to destroy the United States, even though the existence of political parties was deliberately omitted from our Constitution. President George Washington grew so disillusioned with the squabbling of his era that he declined to r

We need physical spaces for serendipitous, productivity-free conversation.

Qasem Waleed is a 28-year-old physicist who has lived in Gaza his whole life. In 2024, he joined a chorus of Palestinians sharing videos and pictures and writing about the chaos and violence they were living through, as Israel’s military bombardment devastated their lives. But Qasem was trying to describe his reality through the lens of the most notoriously confusing and inscrutable field of science ever, quantum mechanics. We talked to him, from a cafe near the Al-Mawasi sec

If you say yes to any of these 5 questions, science says you’re more emotionally intelligent than you think . You may discover you’re more self-aware, empathetic, and emotionally intelligent than you assume.

Most people don't quit their jobs so much as they fall out of love with them. It begins subtly. Work that had felt energizing is now routine. The sense of connection that once anchored them starts to thin. They still show up, still deliver, look entirely committed from the outside—but inside, something essential has changed. Long before anyone hands in a resignation letter, the relationship between the person and the employer has already begun to fade.

Sam Altman says the one-person billion-dollar company is coming. Maybe I could be that person—if only I could get my colleagues to shut up and stop lying. Thanks Kimberly!

What do people ask the popular chatbot? We analyzed thousands of chats to identify common topics discussed by users and patterns in ChatGPT’s responses.