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Smartphones have taken over our lives and free time—but the process began with the phonograph more than 100 years ago
Tech

Smartphones have taken over our lives and free time—but the process began with the phonograph more than 100 years ago

By
May 8, 2024
"The 15-Minute City: A Solution to Saving Our Time & Our Planet," by Carlos Moreno
Lifestyle

How cities grew fragmented, segregated, and polluted—and why they now strive for walkability, community, and urban nature

By
May 7, 2024
What’s it like to be CEO? In a word, lonely—and you might not know for years, or decades, whether you did a good job
Leadership

What’s it like to be CEO? In a word, lonely—and you might not know for years, or decades, whether you did a good job

By
May 7, 2024
Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie transformed America with their music—and were financially exploited because of their race
Success

Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie transformed America with their music—and were financially exploited because of their race

By
May 4, 2024
Gen Zers and millennials are switching jobs at an accelerating pace, and it’s paying off. Here’s where it can still go wrong
Success

Gen Zers and millennials are switching jobs at an accelerating pace, and it’s paying off. Here’s where it can still go wrong

By
April 23, 2024
"Working Assumptions," by Julia Hobsbawm.
Success

The ‘commuter triangle’: How work-life balance is the key to the office-commute-city of the future

By
April 22, 2024
"The Everything War," by Dana Mattioli.
Tech

Entrepreneurs seeking millions from Amazon’s Alexa Fund face a stark reality

By
April 22, 2024
"Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI," by Ethan Mollick.
Tech

AI’s ability to write for us—and our inability to resist ‘The Button’—will spark a crisis of meaning

By
April 18, 2024
The secret to getting more done at work—and home—according to Google’s productivity expert
Life

The secret to getting more done at work—and home—according to Google’s productivity expert

By
April 3, 2024
How practicing persistence can boost your happiness, productivity, and energy
Mind

How practicing persistence can boost your happiness, productivity, and energy

By
April 2, 2024
Asian woman runs and jumping on mountain ridge at sunset.
Mind

How to embrace smart risks and become resilient

By
March 19, 2024
Our Biggest Fight
Tech

Billionaire Frank McCourt says the surgeon general is only half right about the social-media mental health crisis. It’s a crisis of personhood, not privacy

By Frank H. McCourt Jr. and Michael Casey
March 12, 2024
Read Write Own
Features

Top crypto investor Chris Dixon on ‘the computer versus the casino’ and the 2 cultures interested in blockchains

By
March 10, 2024
Default
Finance

The book that reveals how a $100 billion default shook a country: Remembering the judge who threw the book at Argentina 

By
March 9, 2024
Barbara Kellerman
Leadership

Harvard expert who wrote books on ‘bad leadership’ has a 12-step program to break the worst leaders and managers of their ugly habits

By
March 6, 2024

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