In the British Museum’s Mesopotamian collection sits a palm-sized rectangle of baked clay, catalogued as UET V 81. It is roughly the size of a modern smartphone, densely incised with cuneiform on both faces, and dated to around 1750...
I typed it out plainly:
“Based on everything you know about me, why does reaching my goals still leave me feeling flat? Be detailed. Don’t flatter me.”
I was expecting to be told what most articles about ambition tell you. Set...
I let my phone die one Friday evening and, on a whim, decided not to charge it again until Monday. No grand digital-detox announcement, no warning anyone I was going off-grid. I simply let it run flat and left...
I’m not a psychologist, an economist, or a labor researcher. This is one writer noticing a pattern and reading around it. The figures below come from particular surveys and company reports, not from settled science or universal law, and...
Ask most managers what makes for a good day at work and you’ll probably get a predictable list. A bonus. A bit of recognition. A new title, a better chair, a free lunch on Friday. These feel obviously right,...
The surging cost of memory and storage chips “has become unsustainable” and “unfortunately, price increases are unavoidable”, Cook reportedly told The Wall Street Journal.
“We’re doing our best to mitigate the huge increases that are being passed to us, and we’ve...
In 2011, three researchers published a paper in Psychological Science that did something unusual with one of the longest-running datasets in American social science. Shigehiro Oishi and Selin Kesebir, then at the University of Virginia, and Ed Diener, at...
Here’s how many of my mornings go. I sit down to write, open the research tab, and start reading for the angle I need. The angle does not come. So I check Slack, just for a second. Then a...
Between 2011 and 2015, American body brokers, companies with names like Biological Resource Center, Restore Life USA, and MedCure, received donated human bodies and shipped body parts across the United States and overseas, according to the Reuters investigation The...
A slew of organizations are collaborating on a “major AI infrastructure deal.”
Bell Canada, Cohere, Hypertec, and Hive Digital Technologies subsidiary BUZZ High Performance Computing are combining forces toward development and deployment of advanced AI workloads on sovereign Canadian infrastructure,...
