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Esther Perel has a warning for executives: your workforce is suffering from social atrophy and AI is making it worse
Now, the psychotherapist is shifting her attention to the workplace, where AI, hybrid working, and declining engagement are reshaping how colleagues connect. Europe has the lowest employee engagement of any region in the world at 12%, according to Gallup’s 2026 State of the Global Workplace report. This compares with the global average of 20% that is itself at its lowest point since 2020.
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9 hours ago1 min read
Radiolab's "Life Kit" (podcasts for wonder)
Practical science for your everyday life, that finds wonder and thrill in the seemingly mundane.
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9 hours ago1 min read
Cultivate Your Critical Inquiry Skills
Professor Alex Edmans emphasizes that understanding cognitive biases, rather than statistical expertise, is key to identifying misleading information, and he encourages viewers to leverage their innate tools for critical thinking to counter these biases.
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1 day ago1 min read
Why Gen Z is embracing cassettes, Polaroids, and print
A nostalgia-fueled real-world renaissance is underway, led by young adults striving to counter the cultural pessimism and division that pervades much of online life.
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1 day ago1 min read
10 Practical Ways to Improve Happiness
For when you need advice that goes beyond “Be Danish” Related
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2 days ago1 min read
A tale of two ways to think about climate change
A sweeping philosophical history reveals two groups at odds on the relationship between nature and the economy.
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2 days ago1 min read
AMERICAN LONELINESS
It’s not an epidemic—it’s an immune system.
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4 days ago1 min read
Why White-Collar Men Are Obsessed With the Perfect Lawn
Lush turf can be just as much of an office status symbol as a killer golf swing
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4 days ago1 min read
There’s an Ancient Solution to Our Modern Crisis of Attention
About 2,000 years ago, the Roman philosopher Seneca warned of a crisis of attention. The problem wasn’t caused by smartphones or TikTok; it was because papyrus had become more widely available.
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6 days ago1 min read
Awakening Your Spiritual Self
Part One Part Two
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6 days ago1 min read
The moral case for being less online
Logging off social media doesn’t mean checking out of the world.
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6 days ago1 min read
How Panic Pouches Became the New Way to Soothe Anxiety
Six people reveal what’s in their compact bags of calming tools, including fidget toys, sour candies and a rosary.
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Jul 111 min read
4 Chairs Life: a pragmatic philosophy for better being (UII w/Claude)
DM Good afternoon. Ultimately, "4 Chairs Life" is a practical and applicable philosophy, worldview, or "meta-paradigm" to advance better life through better thought, ...for humans individually, ... and for humans collectively, ...such as within their organizations and institutions. This is optimally accomplished by offering facilitating/supporting community arrangements (either independently or embedded within organizations and institutions), all of which require, adopt and e
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Jul 109 min read
What Happens When the Public Record Shrinks
Since last year, the Trump administration has been dramatically reducing the amount of federal data available to Americans. Related
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Jul 101 min read
“Live deliberately”: The origin of America’s first philosophy
How a culture of independence gave rise to a philosophy of self-reliance, solitude, and inner authority.
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Jul 101 min read
HAS OUR SOCIETY ENTERED THE END OF READING ?
Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history.
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Jul 81 min read
Inside the Luddite Festival Harnessing Gen Z’s Rage Against Big Tech
New York City’s Summer of Ludd festival is teaching people how to live offline amid the suffocating presence of Big Tech.
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Jul 51 min read
What would our lives look like if we no longer had to work? As a thought experiment, I tried to imagine
The abundance that AI promises to deliver represents an enormous and radical opportunity – a chance to reconnect with the ancient project of how to live
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Jul 51 min read
The Books We Read Too Late—And That You Should Read Now
One of the great, bittersweet pleasures of life is finishing a title and thinking about how it might have affected you—if only you’d found it sooner.
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Jul 51 min read
How to Succeed at Failure
Sometimes you just can’t win. Make the most of it. Related
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Jul 31 min read
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