Work, careers, companies and money: how organisations, incentives and markets shape the way people work, earn and decide.
134 articles · Work & Money
When a 2022 survey by the language platform Preply asked 1,264 Americans which phrases they consider the most passive-aggressive at work, the results read like a greatest hits of corporate Slack.
Financial anxiety often outlives the conditions that created it by decades. The reason is not bad math but old memory — and recognizing the difference is where healing actually starts.
It's 7:14 a.m. The coffee is still too hot to drink.
Conventional wisdom treats watches, cars, zip codes, and brand names as reliable indicators of wealth.
Most rest discourse assumes the problem is time management. For a specific kind of high-functioning adult, it isn't. It's authorisation — and the person you've been waiting on to grant it is yourself.
The tiredness that doesn't match what you did all day isn't laziness or a sleep problem. It's the cost of switching between different versions of yourself, and the research on mental fatigue is starting to explain why.
Most people think the problem with boomer advice is quality.
Financial circumstances can improve long before a person feels secure.
The friction gets filed under "work ethic." It is not about work ethic.
The morning I deleted Todoist, my thumb hovered over the icon for maybe ten seconds.
Some of the most successful people seem oddly uncomfortable with their own success.
There's a specific kind of silence that settles over a man in the first year or two after he retires.
