My article from City Journal’s Summer 2009 issue called “Digital Wretches” is now up online. It’s about the rise of online-only newspapers and how the local marketplace of ideas in America’s cities is still alive and well. The difference? Well, no one should bank on a staff job anymore. You can read the piece here. You can also listen to me read the story for a podcast (there is currently a link on the City-Journal.org homepage).
Interestingly, Forbes.com seems to have picked it up in its entirety, complete with my picture taken from this website. I wasn’t aware that Forbes and City Journal had this sort of sharing relationship — one of the tricky new things we’ll have to figure out in the digital media world. On the bright side, I guess it’s nice to say I’ve now written for Forbes!
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Laura Vanderkam is the author of 168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think (Portfolio, 2010) and Grindhopping: Build a Rewarding Career without Paying Your Dues (McGraw-Hill, 2007). She is a member of USA Today's Board of Contributors, and her work has appeared in Reader's Digest, Scientific American, Wired, The American, Portfolio and other publications.
Write to her at lvanderkam at yahoo dot com.
Laura,
I had two example/suggestions for your book adn the idea of quality of life specifically for women, etc. and what a balanced, fulfilling life looks like. I know you will be focusing on successful people, people who have balance but you might also want to mention examples of lack of balance or say some of the prevalent negative imagery out there. For example, Michelle Obama walks a fine line here at times — and in order to further her husband’s career most specifically during his campaign — went out of her way to seem house-wifeish, that is without personal ambitions of her own. She then went on to be the first non-Oprah person to go on the cover of Oprah — the most successful woman’s magazine in the country — and in that article she talks about the ideal place for a workout to be at 4 a.m. b/c you would get up at 4 a.m. to go to a paying job if you had to so why not get up at 4 a.m. to work out b/c that is the only time in a real woman’s day to do the things that are important. (That is what she HAS to do).
I found it a most outlandish comment from a woman who says she supports work-life balance, because I don’t know of anyone who thinks doing anything at 4 a.m. on a regular basis is balanced.
Also Sonia Sotomayor has admitted herself to having no personal life and was basically approved or will be for the Supreme c=Curt on being as boring as possible. I really, really don’t think either high-powered woman is giving us a good role model to work from, and it might be worth writing about or mentioning.