Derek Thompson

Derek Thompson is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of the Work in Progress newsletter. He is also the author of the books Hit Makers and On Work: Money, Meaning, Identity and the host of the podcast Plain English.

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  1. White-Collar Work Is Just Meetings Now

    The meeting-industrial complex has grown to the point that communications has eclipsed creativity as the central skill of modern work.

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    Illustration by Ben Kothe / The Atlantic. Source: cherezoff / Getty.