Pocket-Worthy Reads

Stories to fuel your mind

Harvard Business Review

What the Best Mentors Do

Mentorship comes in many flavors. It doesn’t always work unless leaders bear in mind a few common principles.

Literary Hub

The 12 Greatest, Strangest, Most Transfixing Dance Scenes in the History of Crime Movies

Because people may cheat, steal, and kill, but their hips don't lie.

Runner’s World

How to Learn to Love Solo Running

Use these psychological tools if you struggle running by yourself.

Narratively

She Was Once the Biggest Star in Jazz. Here’s Why You’ve Never Heard of Her.

Hazel Scott was a piano prodigy who wowed the worlds of music, TV, and film. But when she stood up for her rights, the establishment took her down.

Apartment Therapy

The Trick to Growing Your Own Avocado Plant

The first step is easy: eat an avocado and save the pit.

The Conversation

If Sugar Is So Bad for Us, Why Is the Sugar in Fruit Ok?

Whole fruits are a great source of nutrients like fiber and hardly have enough fructose to do any harm.

Nautilus

The Simple Dutch Cure for Stress

“Uitwaaien” is a popular activity around Amsterdam.

The Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings)

I Like You: An Almost Unbearably Lovely Vintage Illustrated Ode to Friendship

A touching serenade to the little things that add up to the bigness of a true platonic love.

Bloomberg Businessweek

What Everyone Gets Wrong About Luxury Handbags

The scuttled merger between the owners of Coach and Michael Kors tells us the FTC doesn’t understand “accessible luxury.”

Inc.

Here’s How Highly Successful People Make Little Choices Different From the Rest of Us

It’s simple: If you want to live an exceptional life, you can’t behave like everyone else.

Atlas Obscura

What Is It Like to Be a Bee?

A philosophical and neurobiological look into the apian mind.

The Guardian

Life Gets Better After 50: Why Age Tends to Work in Favor of Happiness

Academics have found increasing evidence that happiness through adulthood is U-shaped – life satisfaction falls in our 20s and 30s, then hits a trough in our late 40s before increasing until our 80s.

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The Art of Navigating Thorny Office Politics

From bad bosses to gossipy colleagues and, of course, office refrigerator drama.

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The Guardian

Bartenders on Which Generation Has the Worst Behavior

Gen Z patrons have stopped opening bar tabs and can’t order quickly, but older customers’ etiquette isn’t perfect either.

The New York Times

The Quiet Unraveling of the Man Who Almost Killed Trump

Thomas Crooks was a nerdy engineering student on the dean’s list. He stockpiled explosive materials for months before his attack on Donald Trump, as his mental health eroded.

Vanity Fair

James Frey Swears His New Book About Very Rich, Poorly Behaved People Isn’t Based on Anyone Real

If James Frey’s road has been a rocky one, at least the bumps were diamonds.

SELF

I’m a Neurologist. Here’s the One Thing I Do Every Day for My Long-Term Brain Health

If you’re worried about cognitive decline, add this to your routine.

Esquire

The Definitive Streaming Service Ranking

Let’s settle this once and for all.

The Atlantic

Witness

What years of witnessing executions taught me about sin, mercy, and the possibility of redemption.

SELF

7 Ways to Heal Your Relationship With Exercise and Movement

Moving your body shouldn’t be a punishment.

Asterisk Magazine

Where the Wild Things Aren’t

We tell our children that weirdness is a blessing in disguise. That’s our fantasy, not theirs.

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Fast Company

Data Breach Victims: Here’s How Your Personal Information Is Sold to Criminals

Understanding the people involved helps us to better recognize the ways that hacking and data breaches are intertwined.

Nature

How to Speak to a Vaccine Sceptic: Research Reveals What Works

Hesitancy about vaccinations is on the rise, but studies show there are specific ways to overcome people’s doubts.

GQ

Is It Ever OK to Go Sockless in Summer?

Depending on your generation, baring your ankles is either a bold sartorial choice or a faux pas of the highest order.

NBC News

NBA Champions Are Usually Built the Same Ways. The Pacers Had to Be Different.

Indiana added key starters — including Tyrese Haliburton and Pascal Siakam — with shrewd trades in recent years. Now they’re in the NBA Finals.

Darius Foroux

AI, the New Economy, and 3 Predictions

Now, more than 3 years into it, let me share 3 predictions on what’s next in this AI economy and how you can prepare.

The New Yorker

The Forgotten Inventor of the Sitcom

Gertrude Berg’s “The Goldbergs” was a bold, beloved portrait of a Jewish family. Then the blacklist obliterated her legacy.

Vox

The Big, Beautiful Bill Is Bad News for Student Loans

If passed, President Donald Trump’s signature legislation would make college more expensive.

Time

Doctors Report the First Pregnancy Using a New AI Procedure

AI was successfully used to address one of the most common forms of infertility in men.

Los Angeles Times

How ‘Industry’s’ Marisa Abela Made a Trust Fund Kid ‘The Tony Soprano of Young Women’

On a break from filming Season 4 of HBO’s bruising workplace drama, the actor opens up about Yasmin’s fight with Harper, thinking of the character as a ‘fortress’ and more.

Axios

The U.S.-China Leverage Game

China’s power is tied to its control of rare earth minerals, electronics, and pharmaceuticals.

The New Yorker

How a Family Toy Business Is Fighting Donald Trump’s Tariffs

Despite securing an important court victory against the Administration, the Illinois businessman Rick Woldenberg knows that his battle with the White House is far from over.

The Atlantic

How I Accidentally Inspired a Major Chinese Motion Picture

A decade ago, I wrote a story about transcending cultural boundaries through sports. Now it’s a movie with a very different message.

Life Hacks

Tips for better living

Vox

We’re Secretly Winning the War on Cancer

The quiet revolutions that have prevented millions of cancer deaths.

Men's Health

Inside the Brave New World of Streetlifting

The love child of calisthenics and weightlifting is about to make all of us rethink what it means to be strong.

Men's Health

I Thought I Knew What Strength Looked Like. Then I Experienced Streetlifting.

It totally changed the way I approach my training.

The Week

Average Retirement Savings by Age: How Do You Stack up?

Determine whether you're being appropriately frugal or going overboard.

The Week

Orthorexia Nervosa: When Clean Eating Goes Too Far

Disordered eating focused on extreme healthy eating has been on the rise in recent years, researchers have found.

HuffPost

‘Dry Begging’ Is a Form of Emotional Manipulation That Sounds All Too Familiar

Read this if you regularly hear statements like “I wish I had a partner who cooks” or “some people would be thrilled to have someone who loves them so much.”

IEEE

Getting Past Procastination

Create systems that allow you to be consistently productive.

HuffPost

This Sweet TikTok Trend Is Actually Helping People Deepen Their Friendships

You might be really shocked to see what your friends’ reactions are.

The Conversation

Your Brain Learns From Rejection − Here’s How It Becomes Your Compass for Connection

Rejection can feel physically painful. It also provides a lesson for your brain on whom to connect with and how.

Kiplinger

What Boomers and Gen Xers Can Learn From Younger Colleagues

Whether you’re a baby boomer or Gen Xer, your younger colleagues’ approach to work may help you find a new job or be happier in the one you’ve got.

Newsweek

Millions of Americans See Credit Scores Plunge

The credit scores of millions of Americans have plummeted in the first quarter of the year as a result of rising student loan delinquency rates, following the end of a years-long pause on federal payments.

Vox

First Comes Marriage. Then Comes a Flirtatious Colleague.

What to do when your partner wants an open marriage and you don’t.