AI Is Coming for Your Favorite Menial Tasks
When machines start picking off all the easy work for themselves, many white-collar jobs are going to get a lot harder. As AI gets better at performing the routine tasks...
Your Professional Decline Is Coming (Much) Sooner Than You Think
Problems related to achieving professional success might appear to be a pretty good species of problem to have; even raising this issue risks seeming precious. But if you reach professional...
At Work, Expertise Is Falling Out of Favor
Employers are increasingly looking for problem-solving generalists - people who can pivot quickly and handle many types of tasks. The phenomenon is sped by automation, which usurps routine tasks, leaving...
Graduate School Can Have Terrible Effects on People’s Mental Health
A new study by a team of Harvard-affiliated researchers found graduate students are disproportionately likely to struggle with mental-health issues. The researchers surveyed roughly 500 economics Ph.D. candidates at eight...
The Swiss Secret to Jump-Starting Your Career
A Colorado program for high school students is drawing inspiration from Switzerland's widely admired youth-apprenticeship program, which involves a broad range of industries. If all goes well, by the end...
The Humanities Are in Crisis
The drop in humanities majors since 2008 has been so intense that I now think there is, in the only meaningful sense of the word, a crisis. Since the financial...