Psychology says the reason the most generous person you know goes home to a silent phone isn’t bad luck — it’s that giving without...
The Silent Phone of the Generous Person: Understanding the Hidden Dynamics of Giving and Receiving
The generous person’s phone is rarely silent—not because nobody knows...
A study sent groups of friends and relatives to eat at a café and asked half to keep their phones on the table. Those...
Phones on Café Tables: A Subtle Distraction with Measurable Effects
A phone resting on a café table rarely feels like a deliberate choice. Instead, it...
A federal judge is about to decide whether Washington can punish AI vendors for saying no
Federal Judge Questions Validity of Anthropic AI Ban Amid Supply-Chain Risk Debate
A federal judge recently expressed significant doubt about the Trump administration’s decision to...
Research suggests that planning on paper and planning through a phone can engage the mind differently: paper may encourage a broader, internally organised view...
Understanding the Mental Work Behind Planning
Planning a day involves two distinct but interrelated types of mental effort. The first is arrangement: assessing what activities...
Nedra Glover Tawwab’s book on personal boundaries spent four weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, while the psychologists who first named workplace...
The Limits of Personal Boundaries in Combating Workplace Burnout
The advice to set better boundaries at work has become close to a default response to...