In late August, the estate of Paul G. Allen sold the Seattle Seahawks NFL franchise to an ownership group led by venture capitalist Vinod Khosla for $9.6 billion. The values of major American sports franchises are soaring, and most owners don’t have t…
I feel like such a failure: Nothing ever goes according to how I plan, and no matter how hard I try, I can never get everything done that I want to do.
Sound familiar?
If so, you’re not alone. As a time management coach for almost 18 years, I’ve…
Earlier this year, I wrote in Fast Company that 2026 could be the year companies finally begin taking employee well-being seriously. I also challenged HR leaders to seize the moment and help drive the requisite cultural change within their organizatio…
Unless you happen to live with a software engineer or avid gamer, you may not be aware of the current shortage in computer RAM—which your resident computer expert may be calling RAMageddon or the RAMpocalypse.
The RAM shortage is a familiar story i…
The post-pandemic push to bring workers back to the office has left many nostalgic for more flexible arrangements, such as hybrid or remote work.
But a wealth of data since the pandemic now suggests that workplace factors like feeling appreciated a…
A new employee says they were reprimanded for drinking too much coffee.
The user took to Reddit to detail the situation, which unfolded at a job they’d started only a month prior. Each morning, they used the coffee machine and company-provided K-Cu…
“Meat proxy” is the worst insult you can hurl at me right now. The term, popularized in August 2026 by the software engineer Niklas Gruhn, refers to a person who takes what artificial intelligence generates and passes it on to another person without r…
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has an optimistic perspective about the potential impact of AI on the American workforce.
In an interview with Fox News on Wednesday, Bezos predicted that productivity gains from AI will allow more families to surviv…
I was writing a book about the perils of recklessly chasing new things when I had an idea: I should interview Tom Hanks.
I had read about how Hanks was an avid typewriter collector, and the typewriter seemed like the perfect foil to today’s f…
Jeff Bezos wrote his first letter to Amazon shareholders in 1997. Amazon had just gone public and Bezos told investors he would be making decisions for the long term and that short term Wall Street reactions would not influence his direction and decis…
