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

Workers in Silicon Valley are pushing themselves to extremes day after day Quick Summary Top AI researchers and executives are working 80 to 100 hours weekly, driven by intense competition. Corporate credit-card transaction data from the expense-management startup Ramp shows a surge in Saturday orders from San Francisco-area restaurants for delivery and takeout from noon to midnight. The pace of AI development has compressed the time from research breakthroughs to product lau

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.

In an excerpt from his book ‘The Leader’s Brain,’ Wharton neuroscientist Michael Platt talks about three leadership skills that are critical in an increasingly automated world.

Where commentary on moms’ satisfaction goes wron g

Expert advice on how to build your strategic muscles

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

What AI to use in late 2025

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.

Data show a resilient economy. But that largely reflects spending by the rich, while others pull back amid high prices and a weakening labor market.

Small No Kings event puts love ahead of politics in rural Kansas town where immigrants are detained . Thank you Kay! ... "One step at a time!"

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.

The largest private employer in the U.S. increased wages in a bid to jump-start sales. Investors needed to be convinced. Quick Summary Walmart’s 2015 decision to raise its starting wage to $9 an hour, impacting nearly half of its one million U.S. hourly workers, initially caused a 10% stock drop. Since 2015, Walmart’s U.S. sales have grown annually, with global sales reaching $681 billion last year, and its shares have more than doubled in five years. Average hourly pay for

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

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