There is a particular sound people make at the end of a hard sentence, a short exhalation that lands somewhere between a laugh and a cough, and it tends to arrive right after they have said something that cost...
The famous marshmallow test presents a child with a deceptively simple choice: eat one treat now, or wait for an adult to return and receive two. The longer a child waits, the familiar story goes, the more self-control that...
At a certain kind of gathering, there is usually one person who never quite settles. They hold a drink, lean against a counter or windowsill, and angle themselves toward both the room and the door. When a chair opens...
The first serious workplace studies of generative AI did not reveal one universal productivity multiplier. They revealed a slope.
At the lower end of the experience curve, an AI assistant could act like an always-available coach, supplying phrases, procedures and...
A woman on a flight out of Bangkok once told me, somewhere over the Bay of Bengal, that she had not spoken to her sister in eleven years. We had been airborne about forty minutes. I knew her drink...
Discipline is usually presented as a down payment on happiness. Resist now, persist now, choose the harder option now, and a better emotional life is supposed to arrive later.
That sequence feels intuitive partly because disciplined people often do report...
Read other people’s eyes, the saying goes, because the eyes never lie. It is an old and romantic idea, the eyes as the window to the soul, and like a lot of folk wisdom it is half true in...
Articles about the habits that destroy relationships usually offer a grab-bag of plausible-sounding clichés. Relationship science has been more precise than that. Thanks largely to decades of work by the psychologist John Gottman, who spent years watching couples interact...
Soft living is the wellness world’s pushback against the militaristic morning routine, the five o’clock start, the cold plunge, the twenty-step optimisation ritual performed before dawn. In its place it offers something gentler: an unhurried, kind, low-pressure start to...
The Justice Department sued TikTok and ByteDance in 2024 for allegedly failing to protect children’s privacy, and illegally collecting their information. The defendants were accused of violating a law requiring online services aimed at children to obtain parental consent...
