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Back in 2007, the University of Chicago put out a study examining job satisfaction among American professionals. As the results came in, trends became clear. “The most satisfying jobs are…

A previous supervisor of mine, beloved and idolized in my training years, recently passed away. An affecting memorial gathering reunited me with some old peers, and we once again marveled…

Mourning is a rather inefficient human process. It is notoriously subjective. It shows little uniformity in severity or duration across populations, and so it regularly defies real scientific standardization. It is no…

Chatbot therapists are actually nothing new. In the 1960s, Joseph Weizenbaum at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab created Eliza. It was an early computational model designed to emulate human interaction, in the…