If you had 20% of your time back at work each day, how would you spend it? This is the question that Lareina Yee, senior partner at McKinsey and chair of the McKinsey Technology Council, poses to me as we discuss the implications of generative A.I. for workers over Zoom. Ever since OpenAI launched ChatGPT …
Are you reading this on your smartphone in between texting your group chat, scanning headlines, responding to your boss on Slack, doing Wordle, and checking the status of your Instagram post to ease your worry about how it’s being received—all before tucking the phone into your pocket only to reflexively tap it to make sure …
Walking pneumonia is what it sounds like, a form of pneumonia so seemingly mild that people with the bacterial illness are often up and about—and inadvertently spreading germs. As the disease continues to circulate nationwide this fall, it’s important to take note of its subtle symptoms. A bacterium called Mycoplasma pneumoniae causes two types of …
A new study published in the journal PLoS One found that a simple balance test is a strong indicator of age-related decline. Researchers at Mayo Clinic evaluated grip and knee strength, double- and single-leg balance, and back-and-forth walking of 40 participants, half aged 50 to 65 and the other half over age 65. Their main …
The heat wave gripping much of the country can be a serious energy sapper. But so can a slew of other culprits, from lack of sleep and poor diet to depression, anemia, stress, thyroid issues, and even lack of exercise. And sometimes caffeine just doesn’t do the trick (not to mention that drinking too much …
It’s no surprise that entrepreneurs—in the hustle of meeting payroll and growing their business—find that personal life takes a backseat from time to time. However, when romantic relationships can’t endure, business owners face professional and financial setbacks in addition to emotional ones, according to a new survey from Clarify Capital, which provides loans to small …
Classes ending in June means boundless joy for kids, right? Not if they’re among the 30 million students who qualify for the federally-assisted meal program and who now likely face “summer hunger”—the result of food-insecure families losing access to the free breakfasts and lunches their children rely on at school throughout the rest of the …
When Maddy Dychtwald was in her teens and twenties in the 1980s, she was a working actor, shooting commercials for Skippy peanut butter and DuPont paint. It was clear that women, especially in her industry at the time, succeeded when they exuded youthfulness and met largely unrealistic beauty standards. The rhetoric that women hit their …
A couple of months ago, my 15-year-old daughter admitted she was addicted to her phone and that she hated it. She deleted TikTok and asked me to buy her a timed lockbox so she could take breaks from her smartphone—and also asked for a flip phone so she could still stay in touch when she …
The CEO of Whole Foods Market doesn’t believe in skimping on PTO. Jason Buechel, 46, took the top job in 2022, just five years after Amazon bought the high-end grocer for over $13.7 billion. As chief executive, Buechel works on a tight schedule consisting of frequent business travel and a “minimum of 10 meetings per …