DM Good morning! Please elaborate regarding your perspectives as to how Cantril's Ladder may be an aid for explaining Aristotle's Eudaimonia. This is a lovely pedagogical question— using Cantril's Ladder as a scaffolding device to introduce Eudaimonia is actually quite illuminating, precisely because the two frameworks share certain structural features while diverging in ways that reveal what makes Aristotle's teaching so distinctive and powerful. The Ladder as Entry Point Ca

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I laughed when a clinical psychologist first told me she suspected I had the disorder. Once I understood it better, my life made more sense.

With Anthropic’s buzzy AI tool, two WSJ columnists vibe coded the interactive page you’re reading. Can you tell?

Research suggests that having a good friend at work can make things better for everyone. Related: 10 things never to share at work

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The science of habits reveals that they can be hidden to us and unresponsive to our desires.

Just one in eight CEOs are seeing both increased revenues and reduced costs from AI.

Nearly three-quarters of CEOs say they are their company’s key decision maker on AI, reflecting the need for an executive to connect the organizational and management dots that this revolutionary technology requires. Four out of five CEOs are more optimistic about the ROI of their AI investments than they were a year ago. Nearly all CEOs believe that AI agents will produce measurable returns in 2026. Related: but as in all frenzies, caution advised (Thanks Kimberly!)

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Daphne Koller explains the hard truths of AI adoption in this week's Big Think Class.

" The Heritage Foundation — the think tank behind Project 2025, which has had an outsize influence on executive branch policy in the second Trump administration — seems to want to take a time machine back to when women were financially dependent on men and gay marriage was not legal, but the authors can’t decide exactly how far back they want to go. They call the report “a culturewide Manhattan Project that marshals America’s political, social and economic capital to restore

How much time workers say the technology saves them on the job is vastly different from what executives report

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In interview with The Wall Street Journal, Dario Amodei says the public isn’t prepared for the potential inequality that the technology might create

New research from Wharton’s Pinar Yildirim reveals how AI can impact employee motivation when implemented in the wrong part of a team’s workflow.

Hiding AI use can erode trust in the workplace and beyond, writes Wharton’s Cornelia Walther.

Silicon Valley fears this is the last chance to amass generational wealth before AI makes money worthless

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It’s time for those struggling with a midcareer slump to consider another path