Bill Sparks examines decades of peer-reviewed research on dispositional job satisfaction — and asks whether your most expensive hiring mistakes were detectable before the offer letter went out.

Paul Pfanner on Pikes Peak, a mountain that's been deciding things by the numbers since 1916, and the competitors taking it on.

Licenses are decreasing, robotaxis are ordinary traffic, and the open road is pricing itself out of reach. Paul Pfanner argues that what's shrinking isn't mobility but the driver.

Bill Long, former CEO of MEMA, on why USMCA isn't enough — and why global competitiveness is the race American manufacturing can't afford to lose.

Bill Sparks on the $2 billion deepfake problem — and why the fix isn't better software, but a simple discipline: never take a face or a voice as proof.

Paul Pfanner on the one test that tells a free press from a captured one. Madison, Murrow, and a standard that takes no side.

Paul Pfanner on people still arguing over who won The Split — and why the best version of IndCar is the one happening now.

Paul Pfanner on the 2026 regulations, what Monaco will force Formula 1 to decide, and why the audience has already voted.

Bill Sparks examines why so many business plans fail despite careful preparation — and why the failures follow patterns founders can anticipate.

A Ferrari is supposed to stop you in your tracks. Paul Pfanner has loved every Ferrari he ever saw — explains why the Luce EV doesn't move him, and why no amount of time will fix it.

Paul Pfanner surveys Sunday's 110th Indianapolis 500 — Felix Rosenqvist's 0.0233-second win for Meyer Shank Racing, the closest finish in race history — and argues that the Penske Entertainment era, reached its best day to date.

Paul Pfanner accepts the 2026 Russo-Marvel Founders Award and challenges the journalists who cover motorsports to build the future of their profession in an age of AI.

Bill Sparks reaches back six hundred years to show that every accusation aimed at AI today — "no skill," "no soul," "just pressing a button" — has been leveled at every significant creative technology since the Renaissance.

Bill Sparks examines the electric air taxi that's almost here — Joby Aviation is months from FAA certification, seven minutes from JFK to Midtown. The flight happened. What comes next is the harder part.

Paul Pfanner was at Michigan the day American open-wheel racing split itself in two in 1996 — Thirty years later, he returns to Indianapolis for the 110th Running with the story of what it took to go back - to the future.

As Paul Pfanner receives the SPMJ Russo-Marvel Founders Award, he offers a meditation on learning, proximity, and who journalists actually work for.

The future isn't coming to IMSA. It has always been here. Paul Pfanner’s half-century perspective on the sport, the brand, and the spirit that connects them.

Foreign intelligence services are storing terabytes of encrypted corporate data that was captured as it moved across the internet. In a few years, they’ll be able to read it.

Alex Zanardi chose to live fully when circumstance took everything. Four stories about truth and learning. One question. Paul Pfanner asks what are you doing with more learning power than any point in human in history?

When Mohamed El-Erian says he understated something, pay attention. Paul Pfanner has been reading recessions long enough to explain why.