--- --- # Modern Work Turned Us Into Passionate Quitters by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jul 27, 2017 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jul 27, 2017 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**The modern working world has turned us all into passionate quitters.**](https://aeon.co/essays/how-work-changed-to-make-us-all-passionate-quitters) By Ilana Gershon in _Aeon_ **2\.** [**How texting can protect babies from sudden death.**](https://news.virginia.edu/content/how-texting-can-protect-babies-sudden-death) By Josh Barney at the _University of Virginia_ **3\.** [**Concentrating on mistakes helps boost learning.**](http://hechingerreport.org/getting-errors-all-wrong/) By Claudia Wallis in the _Hechinger Report_ **4\.** [**What if an eye test could help diagnose autism?**](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/news/story/5102/eye-test-could-help-diagnose-autism.aspx) By the _University of Rochester Medical Center_ **5\.** [**Africa doesn’t need better farmers. It needs better farm policy.**](https://foodtank.com/news/2017/07/africa-needs-better-farm-policy/) By William Burke in _Food Tank_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ Five Best: Modern Work Turned Us Into Passionate Quitters ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4876301/modern-work-turned-us-into-passionate-quitters/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4876301/modern-work-turned-us-into-passionate-quitters/"},"headline":"Modern Work Turned Us Into Passionate Quitters","datePublished":"2017-07-27T16:00:53.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:38.695Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4876301/modern-work-turned-us-into-passionate-quitters/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Innovation","Autism","Education","Babies","Work","Farming"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4876301/modern-work-turned-us-into-passionate-quitters/","name":"Modern Work Turned Us Into Passionate Quitters"}}]}] ```