We tell ourselves that meaning comes from impact, passion, or finding the “one right path.” But these beliefs can leave us feeling stuck — even when our lives look perfectly fine on paper. Behavioral scientist Dave Evans describes a new approach, borrowed from design thinking, to help us build lives that feel more alive, flexible, and real.

Artificial intelligence can handle problems of enormous scope, ushering in breakthroughs in science and medicine. Persistent human guidance is part of the formula.

Research shows that vitality is improved by challenging avoidance, stasis and soothing habits—and instead leaning into uncertainty and discomfort

For decades, high achieving mothers felt pressure to optimize their children for success. These moms have had enough.

It’s a labor market unlike any other: Unemployment has drifted up, layoffs are low, hiring is slow, and the economy needs far fewer new jobs than before

The share of American men working or searching for a job recently hit the lowest level since 1948, aside from the pandemic, Labor Department data shows.

Richard Dawkins caught hell on social media for suggesting it does.

“Imagine the tech without the tech companies.”

Modern memory athletes use this ancient technique to memorize thousands of digits of pi.

It’s not just about spans that seem too short.

Let Claude reflect on past sessions to curate an agent's memory and surface new insights.

A playbook from 1962 may be our last defense against looming inequality for the American worker

Long-thought keys to professional success don’t always hold true for the top 1% of earners

3 a.m. tests and culture clashes: The automaker brought together Silicon Valley techies and industry misfits in a quest to beat China at EVs

Company bosses are splitting into two camps over what the technology’s best, immediate benefits are. Neither calls for more hiring anytime soon.

MORE MONEY CAN BUY A BIGGER house or a better car, but it can’t buy a better supervisor or leader, says Wharton’s Matt Killingsworth. KEY TAKEAWAYS The more people earn, the happier they are outside of work. However, happiness at work does not reliably improve with higher income, and may even decline slightly due to factors like longer work hours. Those making more than $200,000 report the highest levels of happiness at work, likely due to greater control.

DM How do you define the types, scales and scopes of social or relational power, particularly as to human-to-human power differentials? This is a richly contested territory, and the disagreements about how to define power are themselves revealing — they reflect different assumptions about where reality "lives" (in structures, in agents, in relationships, in discourse), which makes this an inherently Pantakinetic problem. Let me build this up in layers. Starting Point: What Is

DM Good day! Unaided by only our past conversations and the knowledge otherwise you can access, how would you consider a "synergistic holophrenic gestalt" to be defined, ...and the considerations, implications and applications? Good day, Danny! This is a genuinely fascinating question to work through — precisely because the phrase itself isn't one I've encountered in any prior literature, which means constructing its meaning requires careful architectural reasoning from the f

In a world full of distractions, getting your brain to focus on one thing at a time requires radical measures. Excerpt: "Multitasking is the act of distracting yourself. It comes with a cost even when tasks feel related, because it requires you to switch the “mental rules of the game,” as the cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham puts it. Even when people are allowed to switch between tasks at their own discretion, the more they switch, the longer everything takes. As Mark ha

Thanks to the rise of Claude Code and other AI agents, revenues are finally catching up to the hype.