Work Life
DECEMBER 23, 2023
We’ve made it past the darkest day of the year, and as we all—hopefully!—take a pause during this last week of 2023, it’s a good time to look back and assess the year’s work. Fast Company’s most-read Work Life stories from 2023 give a glimpse into our collective struggles when it comes to what we prioritize in our working lives.
Mad in America
DECEMBER 23, 2023
S everal weeks after being committed under the Mental Health Act, still dopey from mandated antipsychotics, I had a dream. They were shatteringly vivid then—usually involving fleeing from hospital staff who wanted to lock me up and inject me with sedatives. But this dream was different, and it turns out, not so far from a possible reality. These days, I research alternatives to approaching psychosis, voice-hearing and unshared realities at the University of Edinburgh, which often feels like a su
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Work Life
DECEMBER 23, 2023
It’s been a hard year. In fact, a 2023 poll found that nearly 60% of Americans believe the past year has been the most stressful of their entire lives. Americans are stressed about finances, about their mental and physical health, and about the state of the world. All of these challenges can be exacerbated by the holidays, when the distance between the joy we are supposed to feel and the stress we actually feel can seem most acute.
Work Life
DECEMBER 23, 2023
Dr. Rajiv Shah is the president of the Rockefeller Foundation and a former American government official, physician, and health economist. He was the administrator of USAID and he serves on President Biden’s Defense Policy Board. Below, Shah shares five key insights from his new book, Big Bets: How Large-Scale Change Really Happens. Listen to the audio version—read by Rajiv himself—in the Next Big Idea App. 1.
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