Psychology says people who overshare with strangers — the barista, the Uber driver, the person beside them on the plane — aren’t odd or...
Understanding the Human Need to Share: Why Oversharing with Strangers Happens
On a flight departing Bangkok, a woman shared with me, somewhere above the Bay...
One of the most counterintuitive findings from the first wave of AI productivity research is that the biggest gains often go to the people...
Understanding the Productivity Impact of Generative AI in the Workplace
Early workplace studies of generative AI did not identify a single, universal productivity multiplier. Instead,...
A 2025 longitudinal study challenges the idea that greater discipline automatically creates happiness: across American and Asian samples, improvements in psychological well-being predicted stronger...
Rethinking the Relationship Between Discipline and Well-Being
Discipline is often portrayed as a necessary investment in future happiness: resist temptation now, persist through challenges, and...
The idea that life is a chess game where every move matters is a bracing corrective to fatalism, but chess is a revealingly bad...
Life Is a Chess Game Where Every Move Matters: A Closer Look
“Life is a chess game where every move matters” is a statement that...
Research suggests the generation that grew up in the 1960s and 70s wasn’t hardened by trauma so much as tempered by ordinary difficulty —...
The Value of Ordinary Difficulty in Childhood Development
My uncle fell out of a mango tree at nine and broke his arm in two places....