You Have Time to Read War and Peace (Here's the Math)
06.05.2026 | 26 Min.
Most of us don't have a time-management problem — we have a time-anxiety problem, and Laura Vanderkam is here to prove you have more hours than you think with a practical framework for designing your life around what actually matters. Then, in the second half, she returns with battle-tested strategies from Tranquility by Tuesday — nine ways to calm the chaos and make all that reclaimed time feel genuinely peaceful.
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The Workforce Is Aging. Here's Why That's Good News.
05.05.2026 | 32 Min.
Everyone's talking about AI reshaping the future of work, but there's a quieter revolution underway: the workforce is getting older — fast. First, Dan Pontefract makes the case that aging employees aren't a liability but an untapped asset. Then Jeff Schwartz zooms out to explore how resilience, opportunity, and human-centered thinking can help us thrive in a rapidly accelerating world of work.
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Five Rules for Getting Out of Your Own Way
04.05.2026 | 29 Min.
The blank page is often the enemy of creativity, so why do the right constraints actually make us more inventive? First, David Epstein shares big ideas from his new book Inside the Box on how limits fuel better thinking. Then, we revisit his bestseller Range to explore why breadth of experience can be the ultimate superpower in a specialized world.
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Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most
01.05.2026 | 35 Min.
Big ideas from Effortless by Greg McKeown and Friday Forward by Robert Glazer.
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The Tesla Playbook
30.04.2026 | 26 Min.
Most companies fail not because they do too little — but because they do too much. First, former Tesla president Jonathan McNeill reveals how subtraction, speed, and radical simplification fueled hypergrowth at Tesla, Lululemon, and SpaceX. Then, two Amazon veterans share the inside playbook from Working Backwards on how the company scaled by obsessing over process and working from the customer backward.
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