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

DM Good morning Claude. How might theTeilhard de Chardin's construct of a "Noosphere" relate, correlate, or have relevance to our recent conversations, and the many factors thereof (such as: Pantakinesis™, the Universal Holophren™ and the fractals thereof, Non-local consciousness discoveries and their potential relationships to post-death consciousness, Fitness=Truth™ and definition of truths as being personal, etc.). Good morning! What a rich synthesis question! Having revie

Here’s how to tell if management is right for you—and you for it.

A new study of tech workers offers an answer: quite a lot

Successful teams aren’t necessarily about star talent, but more often depend on the quiet leaders who hold organizations together

You may think it’s better than saying ‘no.’ It isn’t.

Workplace tensions and resentment will rise if top performers benefit more than everyone else from artificial-intelligence tools. But there are things companies can do to level the playing field. Quick Summary Artificial intelligence will likely widen the performance gap between top-performing employees and average employees, contrary to conventional wisdom. Superstars leverage their in-depth knowledge and good work habits to gain more value from AI, while average performers

Parents aren’t sure how to steer their teens in the face of AI; ‘There’s a panic’

Most of us have to work, but life is far too short to have so much of it dominated by unhappiness or discontent. So I believe that everyone needs — and deserves — to be happy at work.

Investment in AI ignites a fire under U.S. economy, but technology hasn’t yet fulfilled promise of making humans work more efficiently Quick Summary AI’s economic impact stems mainly from increased investment and a stock-market rally, not substantial worker-productivity boosts. Economists are divided on AI’s current productivity impact; some note tech-sector gains, others find no strong link outside of tech. Productivity gains are coming, say economists. New technologies just

The outcome of these trends has huge implications for workers, wealth and the future of America’s economy.

From Jane Austen to Rosa Parks, from Joan Didion to Stacey Abrams, saying no has been the key to female self-respect and political empowerment. Excerpt: ' “If you could go back to your younger self—say, six years after you’d graduated from high school—what would you ask?” I thought about it for a second and then said, “I’m not so sure I’d ask my younger self anything, but here’s what I’d tell her: that she needs to remember to listen more carefully to the voice inside her hea

.... a theoretical answer to why some work is of value to humankind, whilst other activity does nothing more than generate heat that contributes to entropy, but adds no real value to life. The perverse fact is that in our society, the former is undervalued, and the latter is massively overvalued because what we show is that the financial services sector is a work of no value, which only succeeds in destabilising society.  Excerpt : "There is a fundamental distinction that we

The Nobel Prize was awarded to economists Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt, who study the effects of creative destruction and innovation on growth.

Americans’ mental health is suffering and it’s not just due to stressful news feeds or not getting enough steps in. Toxic work environments are playing a large role in an epidemic of worsening mental health.  According to Monster’s newly released 2025 Mental Health in the Workplace survey of 1,100 workers, 80% of respondents described their workplace environment as toxic. The alarming statistic is an increase from 67% just a year ago.

Going along with an untruth for fear of disagreeing with others is a form of self-betrayal that will make you miserable. Excerpt: "What had kept the U.S.S.R. population in chains for so long was what the author and scientist Todd Rose has termed a “collective illusion,” precisely this phenomenon of people holding an opinion that is widely shared but that they believe is theirs alone—thus staying silent from fear of persecution or rejection."

The ultimate advice for managers could be just to be human.

The fraying of my family and our working-class hometown

Sociologist Sarah Mosseri is challenging a familiar idea in American work culture: the notion of the “workplace family.”

China has more industrial robots than the rest of the world combined, but newer, more flexible robots are keeping smaller U.S....