Browsing: Well-Being
Staff at a major Swedish pharmacy chain are being paid to take time off with friends to combat loneliness—they can even text loved ones during the $100 ‘friendship hour’
Loneliness is wearing down so many workers that it’s been deemed an “epidemic” by U.S. healthcare professionals. Across the pond…
Bryan Johnson says he’ll make humans immortal by 2039—but needs to fix ‘buggy’ issues like causing cancer
For most people, success means squeezing as much as possible into 80‑odd years: a big job with a flashy title…
Student Beans made him a millionaire, a heart condition made this millennial founder rethink life
Today, we meet James Eder, the 42-year-old cofounder of Student Beans (a discount coupon company targeting the college crowd), who…
It’s not at all an uncommon experience to be deeply caring and understanding, and yet struggle deeply to apply that…
Both clinical wisdom and empirical research agree that the more we fixate on happiness, the more elusive it becomes. In…
Former VP Kamala Harris says she went through a nine-hour interview to land the job—but she couldn’t escape ‘gold medal depression’ even when she won
Job-seekers complain about “ghost jobs,” five rounds of interviews, and tedious skills tests—but even major leaders are no exception to…
The CEOs of Apple, Airbnb, and PepsiCo agree on one thing: life as a business leader is incredibly lonely
Being CEO has its many perks: Business leaders get to command the world’s most powerful companies, shape their legacies as…
Founder of $100 million company says she quit her day job to rebuild her father’s Cape Cod chip empire—and there ‘wasn’t time’ to worry about nepotism
Serial entrepreneur Nicole Bernard Dawes seemed destined to build million-dollar food brands. As a kid, she grew up working the…
From Doritos to Pop-Tarts, Big Food’s $67 billion obsession is protein-packed everything: ‘It’s going to keep coming’
Health-conscious Gen Z consumers and Ozempic users looking to maintain muscle mass are pushing the packaged-food industry to pack every…
Strava CEO says the $2 billion unicorn plans to go public ‘at some point’ as marathon-obsessed Gen Z swaps dating apps for run clubs
Strava, an exercise-tracking app last valued at $2.2 billion, is benefitting from Gen Z’s obsession with run clubs and marathons…












