Scott H Young

What if being productive doesn’t mean feeling productive? A paradox of productivity is that the things that feel productive—working incessantly, checking off lots of tasks, feeling strained and drained—are often not what produces important accomplishments; in fact, these things can get in the way.  Recently, two of my friends have written books which argue versions […]

The best habit to improve your reading is to ask after every impassioned argument, “What’s the rebuttal?”

Burnout can be understood as a mismatch between six different elements of the work environment: workload, control, reward, community, fairness and values.

A new research paper providing a provocative hypothesis regarding learning.