Nick Bloom at Stanford did this great great experiment where people in call centers got to work from home instead of an office. Their productivity went up by over 13%, and they were half as likely to quit over the next six months.

I think this goes to why people procrastinate, which is a lot of people think it's laziness ... You're not avoiding work when you procrastinate ... It's not that you're being lazy; it's that you're avoiding negative emotions that a task stirs up.

The heart of burnout is emotional exhaustion—the sense that you're so depleted and drained by your work that you literally have nothing left to give.

One of the pieces of good news about loneliness is that it doesn't necessarily take that much connection to begin to make a dent in it.

There's some work suggesting that we do some of our most creative thinking when we're doing mindless tasks, and that boredom can make us more creative.

In order for moderate procrastination to fuel creativity, you have to be intrinsically motivated by the thing you're procrastinating on.

When intrinsic motivation is difficult to find, what you want to substitute with is a sense of purpose. Maybe a better way to say that is when the process is not interesting to you, you need to find a meaningful outcome.

I don't think that rewards should be carrots that we dangle to try to control people's behavior; I think they should be symbols of how much we appreciate and value a particular behavior.

If you want to detect lies, visual cues are much less reliable than getting people to talk longer and then looking for inconsistencies in their stories.

There was some evidence during COVID that people have their best meetings right after lunch. They're something like 30% less likely to multitask in an after-lunch meeting.

I read a series of I think it was three studies recently showing that early birds actually did do more creative in the morning.

The peak of creativity is in the middle of procrastination.