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The Highest Performers Are the Last to Know They’re Breaking

The Highest Performers Are the Last to Know They’re Breaking

In 2019, a large professional services firm noticed something strange in its absence data. The people taking the most sick days were not, as everyone assumed, the underperformers. They were the top performers. The people whose output was highest, whose client relationships were strongest, whose names came up first in

The $154 Billion Line Item That Doesn't Appear on Any Balance Sheet

The $154 Billion Line Item That Doesn't Appear on Any Balance Sheet

The loneliness epidemic is not just a health crisis. It is sitting in your open-plan office, attending your all-hands, and quietly costing you more than you know. Here is what to do about it. In the mid-1980s, a political scientist named Robert Putnam began noticing something strange

When You Can’t Trust What’s Real, the First Thing You Lose Is Yourself

When You Can’t Trust What’s Real, the First Thing You Lose Is Yourself

In the autumn of 2016, a team of researchers at MIT set out to answer what seemed like a straightforward question: how does false information travel on the internet? They built a dataset of every major piece of verified true and false news that had circulated on Twitter between 2006

The Paradox of the Most Connected Generation in History

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The Paradox of the Most Connected Generation in History

We built tools to bring everyone together. They made us lonelier than ever. Here is what we missed — and what we can do about it. For more than two decades, a social psychologist named John Cacioppo built the scientific case for something that sounds almost too simple to be true:

Your Body Isn’t Failing You. It’s Been Listening to Your Mind All Along.

Your Body Isn’t Failing You. It’s Been Listening to Your Mind All Along.

In 1983, a psychologist at Southern Methodist University named James Pennebaker started noticing something strange about the people around him. They would go to the doctor complaining of headaches, back pain, persistent fatigue, stomach problems. The doctor would examine them, run the tests, and find nothing. No structural cause. No