Startup life has gotten the Hollywood treatment in a string of movies from The Social Network to The Intern to Steve Jobs. Most young people already have a mental picture of what working at a startup would be like: free snacks, nap pods, sprawling offices with open floor plans, and late-night team meetings where everyone’s […]

When it comes to work, we are doing it all wrong. That’s the word from Barry Schwartz, whose incredibly popular TED Talks about the modern workplace have been seen by more than 10 million people. They’re so popular, in fact, that the organizers of the series convinced him to publish a book called Why We […]

What Is Uptalking I have a confession to make: I’m an “uptalker.” (And I’m not the only one out there.) Uptalk, or “upward inflection,” is the speech habit of ending sentences like questions: the pitch of your voice trails up at the end. Examples Of Uptalking “The Millennial generation is known for uptalking, and there […]

Many of us have a notebook. Some of us even have an entire shelf full of them. Maybe you bought it intending to jot down creative ideas. Or to keep to-do lists on paper, preserving the satisfying tradition of scratching an item off the list in pen. Or to reflect on the day before bed. […]

One night in spring 2014, I sat on the floor, scanning the spines of books housed on a petite bookshelf in a spare, but very well-appointed one-bedroom apartment in Manhattan. The apartment belonged to the business developer I’d recently begun seeing, who I admired for his high-functioning lifestyle. He rose at 5:30 every day to […]