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Our obsession with speed and productivity creates unnecessary pressure that quietly fuels burnout and anxiety.
Higher productivity drives increases in wealth, wages, and living standards. AI could be just what we need to solve many of today’s problems — if we manage the gains wisely.
Rubin joins Big Think for a chat about her one-minute rule, why self-knowledge is key to a good life, and more.
Today’s AI is built to respond. The future belongs to proactive systems.
A practical framework for using AI more effectively
Practical guidance for navigating AI’s role in modern learning organizations.
Time blocking is a remarkable technique for ensuring your daily actions are guided forward by your overarching goals and intentions. Here’s how to supercharge it.
One of the many reasons I love my job is that, on any given week, I get to talk with a dozen or so smart, thoughtful L&D leaders to hear […]
Why the most enduring organizations stop chasing trends and start designing systems that prioritize people over processes.
Marine Tanguy — author and founder/CEO of MTArt Agency — argues that viewing and creating art has profound benefits.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Unconsidered productivity might leave you moving efficiently in the entirely wrong direction.
Psychologist Bob Sutton encourages leaders and teams to identify the different forms of friction — and reclaim time that would be lost to organizational drag.
Major League Baseball and Ivy League research confirm that tackling well-being is hard work — but well worth the effort.
Philosopher and author Christopher DiCarlo outlines the key areas where AI continues to reshape the labor landscape.
The Malling-Hansen writing ball, with its potential and limitations, redefined Nietzsche’s philosophical and creative expression.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Psychotherapist Israa Nasir explains how a “value-aligned life” can help us crush our goals — without being crushed by the need to accomplish more.
Cal Newport explains how you and your teams can accomplish more while improving quality and supercharging workplace morale.
Studying why innovation clusters form can shed light on how to better promote research and growth.
To maintain momentum and flow, the great novelist Ernest Hemingway didn’t burn himself out — but learned when to put his work down.
In a major shift, psychologists now view an out-of-control compulsion to work as an addiction with its own set of risk factors and consequences.
Jotform CEO Aytekin Tank outlines a strategy for balancing collaboration with healthy competition.
Lynda Gratton, a professor of management practice at the London Business School, explains how business leaders can navigate a future in constant flux.
Across a variety of industries, trust and “upside-down management” have paid dividends.
Rich is brilliant at his job. He completes work in half the time of his coworkers. Should he have to sit at his desk just as long?
According to Harvard career advisor Gorick Ng, this time-saving system can help us reclaim our work-life sanity.
Sam Smith — founder and former CEO of finnCap Group — argues that a culture of empathy will help superscale any business.
The Reitoff principle gives us permission to "write off" a day and intentionally step away from achieving anything.