People who still send handwritten thank-you notes aren’t clinging to etiquette
A handwritten thank-you note now feels almost disproportionate to the favour it acknowledges. A colleague covers a meeting, a neighbour ...
Monday, September 14, 2026
Tag: people
The people sewing your clothes can’t see the stitches clearly — a $10 pair of glasses could unlock $27 billion in gains
For Ruma Aktar, a sewing machine operator at a garment factory in Bangladesh, one single item has transformed her work ...
The art of small talk: 10 subtle phrases that make people light up when you first meet them
For years my actual job was to make strangers feel like regulars before the bread hit the table. Restaurants run ...
When psychologists asked people to log what they were doing hour by hour, roughly 43 percent of daily behaviour turned out to be habit — done in the same place while the mind was somewhere else entirely
Wendy Wood, a psychologist, handed pagers to a group of undergraduates and asked them to record what they were doing, ...
People who find it physically uncomfortable to look someone in the eye during a compliment aren’t insecure or evasive — they’re often the ones who take in emotional information so directly that full eye contact during something kind becomes almost too much to hold
The last time I paid someone a proper compliment, they looked at the floor like I’d dropped a twenty and ...
Psychology says people who go very still when they’re upset — no fidgeting, no shifting, almost no movement — aren’t calm or indifferent; they’re often the ones for whom stillness became the only safe response to something overwhelming
Years ago, in a kitchen I part-owned, I watched a chef come apart at a line cook during a Friday ...
Warren Buffett: Bill Gates’ actions with Epstein ‘distasteful,’ but people make mistakes
Warren Buffett called Bill Gates' association with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein "distasteful" after the Berkshire Hathaway chairman excluded ...
People who navigate their 40s and 50s alone often worry they’re falling behind emotionally — research suggests the opposite: years of sitting with your own discomfort, without someone to hand it to, tend to produce a self-awareness most coupled people never have to develop
There’s a particular worry I keep running into from people in their forties and fifties who are on their own. ...
Why people sleep with phones next to bed? Psychology and sociology studies say it’s not because of any addiction or love for gadgets
Picture the average American bedroom at night: a phone charging on the nightstand, glowing softly within arm's reach of the ...
Psychology says people who keep a paper calendar beside their phone aren’t resisting technology—they trust the version of time they can see all at once more than the version that disappears behind a screen
There is a particular kind of desk that looks as if it belongs to two eras at once. A smartphone ...
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