Gallup has found only about one in five workers worldwide feel engaged on the job, but the number that should worry economies is even bigger
A quick note: I am not an economist, a psychologist, or an organizational scientist.
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Xcimer just turned on the largest privately owned laser in the world — and the real story isn't the kilojoules, it's who gets to own the supply curve for fusion energy
Fusion startup Xcimer Energy has activated Phoenix, a krypton-fluoride excimer laser system the company describes as the largest privately owned laser in the world.
A fake UK visa site has been leaking 100,000 passports and selfies for weeks, and the part nobody is talking about is why the operator has zero incentive to fix it
An unofficial website calling itself UK Visa Portal has exposed the passports and selfie photos of visa applicants, and the security flaw remains unpatched, according to TechCrunch , which reported the breach on 26 May.
Quote of the day by Carl Jung: "Loneliness does not come from having no people around, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible."
Carl Jung set down this sentence in the 1950s, late in his working life, when the bulk of his clinical practice and his major theoretical work was already behind him.
Immigration law is becoming America's quietest censorship tool, and a federal lawsuit is about to test whether courts can still see it
A rarely-used immigration statute is being weaponised to keep researchers out of America.
Behavioral science suggests that responding well to education and opportunity may itself be a partly inherited trait — not just a product of good parenting
A new study from Lund University, tracking roughly 880 twins from the German TwinLife project, reports that between 69 and 98 percent of the link between IQ at 23 and socioeconomic status at 27 can be attributed to genetic factors.
The psychology of attention residue and how I have started minimizing it
Imagine this. You're forty minutes into a piece of work.
Philippine House impeaches VP Sara Duterte for second time over $110M in flagged bank transactions
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Why the calmest investors in the world are not actually calm — and what Jon Gray's $26 billion bet on Hilton reveals about the structural conditions everyone mistakes for temperament
The phrase Jon Gray uses for the deal that nearly ended him at Blackstone is not "risky" or "contrarian" or any of the other words private equity people reach for when they want to make a story sound braver in retrospect than it felt at the time.
Why self-taught generalists may dominate as AI rewrites the rules of work
Last year, I was catching up with an old friend over a round of golf.
Research suggests people entering the workforce today are on track to hold roughly twice as many jobs over their careers as people 15 years ago, and 70% of skills used in most jobs may change by 2030
People entering the workforce today are on track to hold roughly twice as many jobs over their careers as people did 15 years ago.
No one expected the generation born into technology to be so cautious of AI. Are Gen Z onto something older generations are missing?
There's something deeply counterintuitive buried in some recent Gallup figures, and I think it's worth sitting with for a moment.