Part 2 of my story on the power — and the limitations — of nonintuitive advice. What’s the best advice you ever got?.

It’s advice-giving season in the US as families come together to share food and ideas. Here’s some of my favorite advice, prepared in two appetizing servings….

You don’t have to be a professional photographer to see beauty. But you do have to look up from your phone.

Civility begins with valuing other people as people. And if we want more of it, that starts with us.

More and more people want to work from home. This saves them time and may even allow them to produce more work. But, increasingly, it appears innovation may suffer.

In the competition for where people will work in the future, one arrangement is clearly winning: hybrid work. Is this a good thing for employees? For employers? What the data shows about hybrid work, and where we may be going in the future.

We could assemble and reach consensus to petition our government to teach more civics — if only people knew we had the right to do that.

Looking for a big hairy audacious problem to solve? Try figuring out how to get 2 million different people just the right kind of higher education. You have 7 years….

Pandemic, schmandemic. Workfromhome, schmurkfromhome. The US work world may have changed forever during COVID-19, but in places across the world, it’s back to the office, business almost as usual.

The office building has been a staple of American worklife for decades. The pandemic changed that. Now the bills are coming due. Something’s gotta give.

There’s a reason why low visibility sports do backflips when they are selected to be on the Olympic schedule.

We know we have rights as citizens. But what are our obligations?