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Mind
How to embrace smart risks and become resilient
By Mary C. MurphyMarch 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 CaseyMarch 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 Chris DixonMarch 10, 2024
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Finance
The book that reveals how a $100 billion default shook a country: Remembering the judge who threw the book at Argentina 
By Gregory MakoffMarch 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 Barbara KellermanMarch 6, 2024
Bob Iger, Marc Benioff, and the billion-dollar deal that never was: The untold story of Disney’s battle for Twitter
Tech
Bob Iger, Marc Benioff, and the billion-dollar deal that never was: The untold story of Disney’s battle for Twitter
By Kurt WagnerFebruary 21, 2024
Perfect 10
Success
RE/MAX founder’s first real-estate sale: After 6 months of trying and failing, a chance encounter at the grocery store and 5 deals in 48 hours
By Dave LinigerFebruary 14, 2024
Minotaur at the mall
Finance
The Cassandra of ‘technofeudalism’ on capitalism’s ‘global minotaur phase’ of titanic deficits, debts and gambles
By Yanis VaroufakisFebruary 11, 2024
Pandora's Box
Lifestyle
Inside ‘Pandora’s Box’: Legendary cultural critic Peter Biskind reveals how ‘the Netflix Effect’ ate Hollywood from the inside 
By Peter BiskindDecember 26, 2023
LeBron James
Success
LeBron James opens up on bringing a school to his Ohio hometown: ‘When you’re not from here, it’s hard to get a grasp on it but we get overlooked all the time’
By Amy SchillerDecember 8, 2023
The Economic Government of the World
Finance
From the Great Depression to the Great Financial Crisis and beyond—Nearly 100 years of ‘The Economic Government of the World’
By Martin DauntonNovember 17, 2023
The Geek Way
Tech
What Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Jeff Bezos all have in common, MIT professor says: They were all Montessori school students
By Andrew McAfeeNovember 14, 2023
Kevin Woodson
Success
Racial Discomfort: The hidden reasons why so many Black workers leave elite law firms, banks, and consulting firms
By Kevin WoodsonNovember 13, 2023
Ray Dalio "The Fund"
Finance
Billionaire Ray Dalio’s firing of a future Fortune 500 CEO revealed: Larry Culp dared to criticize ‘The Principles’ that ran the world’s largest hedge fund
By Rob CopelandNovember 11, 2023
Genius of Israel
Tech
‘The Genius of Israel’ book excerpt: A vibrant economy and tech sector with roots in regular military service
By Dan Senor and Saul SingerNovember 5, 2023
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Success
MacKenzie Scott alone accounted for one-third of America's $19.2 billion in megagifts last yearplaceholder alt text
By Sydney LakeJune 25, 2026
Success
Philanthropy leader at Warren Buffett and Bill Gates’ Giving Pledge says children of billionaires are pushing them to give their wealth away fasterplaceholder alt text
By Preston ForeJune 27, 2026
Success
Elon Musk on MacKenzie Scott giving away $26 billion of her fortune: 'Sadly,' it makes the world a worse placeplaceholder alt text
By Sydney LakeJune 29, 2026
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