Greater Good

Some forms of distress at work are easy to recognize because they interrupt someone’s daily performance and the work of those around them: For example, a person on your team becomes visibly exhausted, they are irritable, or they’re frequently absent. But other forms of distress are harder to see precisely because the work continues uninterrupted.

It’s common to talk a...

When I’m producing a documentary, one of my favorite parts of the process is the moment when a bit of our footage sticks to me. Permanently. I never know when it will happen, but it always does. The sticky bit could be a snippet of dialogue or a quote from an interview. After watching the footage over and over again, the bit becomes part of me.

Often it’s a funny lin...

When the Stanford Center on Longevity launched in 2007, founding director Laura Carstensen spent a lot of time correcting misperceptions. “The initial response people had was, ‘Like the Methuselah Foundation? You are going to extend life?’” Carstensen was clear that the center’s aim was not to increase lifespans—which had nearly doubled during the 20th century—but rather to b...