Some were born to lead. But many are just “accidental managers.” Take Dustin Moskovitz. The millennial cofounded Facebook with his Harvard roommate, Mark Zuckerberg, and went on to become the company’s first CTO before leaving to found Asana, a project management platform, in 2008. Again, Moskovitz led the startup (this time as CEO), taking the
Illustration: David Parkins The problem Dear Nature, A few months ago, I started a PhD at a university in North America. I have a disability that affects both my physical and my mental capacity, and its impact on me fluctuates. The more I can rest, the fewer symptom flare-ups I experience. Unfortunately, my laboratory has
You’ve probably heard of “quiet quitting,” the trend that saw employees doing the bare minimum of work and silently checking out of jobs they didn’t enjoy but financially needed. Then came “loud quitting,” which is essentially what it says: making a lot of noise about why they’re walking. But now, workers are so frustrated with
Credit: gorodenkoff/iStock via Getty Until just a few years ago, my journey in learning to code as a wet-lab clinician-scientist was marked by frustration. I regularly found myself staring at a flashing cursor, scouring jargon-filled forums for clues to why my script had crashed and spending hours hunting down a single missing comma or mismatched
Matthew McConaughey has an Oscar, an estimated $200 million net worth and a hefty catalog of 20 years’ worth of reviews—good and bad. Despite his clear career success, he collated all the worst things ever written about him, went to the desert for a weekend, and read every one. “I took them on as a
Denmark and other Scandinavian countries are seen as top destinations for PhD candidates from other European nations.Credit: Bumble Dee/Shutterstock How much do PhD students earn? The first comprehensive overview of PhD income shows vast imbalances across much of Europe1. The report, which investigated the earnings of first-year doctoral candidates in 2024–25 across 26 countries, was
