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An August 2026 revision subsequently put the relative gap at 19%. The discussion below retains the November 2025 results; these are relative, descriptive…
Most people assume a good team is mostly a casting problem.
In 1959, Stanford students sat through a deliberately tedious task, then were paid to tell the next participant it had been fun.
Here is something I have been turning over for a while.
I have a bad habit I am not proud of.
I typed it out plainly: "Based on everything you know about me, why does reaching my goals still leave me feeling flat?
I'm not a psychologist, an economist, or a labor researcher.
Somewhere on campaign, probably in a tent on the Danube frontier, Marcus Aurelius wrote a note to himself about wanting to be elsewhere.
I had a morning recently that, on paper, should have been a good one.
Sit down to do real work, the kind that asks something of your brain, and notice how long you can actually hold it.
Ask most managers what makes for a good day at work and you'll probably get a predictable list.
Here's how many of my mornings go.
