If you can juggle more, faster, you must be performing well. The problem is that this belief feels productive—but it isn’t.

"Have you seen the bubble room?" I stood in that spectacular corner of the high-rise building with an impressive view of the city below. I took pictures to remember the place. But as I walked away, I ...

This article follows the Direct Message methodology, designed to cut through the noise and reveal the deeper truths behind the stories we live. Here’s something that blew my mind: A Stanford study ...

You’re reading Open Questions, Joshua Rothman’s weekly column exploring what it means to be human. This summer, I reread the novel “Aurora,” by Kim Stanley Robinson, a science-fiction writer whom I ...

Time management is something we all think we've come to terms with as adults. But do you really know how long you should be mapping out in your day to write your work reports, or do you just wing it ...

While productivity strategies come and go, two stand out as both prominent yet often misunderstood: time blocking and task batching. On the surface, they seem similar. Both methods involve planning ...