Less than 40 minutes per week
I may have found my new favorite data set. The Center on Everyday Lives of Families at UCLA did a study of 32 middle-class, dual-income …Read More
Yearly Archives: 2012
The frictionless labor market
There are two labor markets: the W-2 one, and the 1099 one. W-2s are the tax forms you get if you’re on someone’s payroll. 1099s …Read More
Round-up: Tracking time, your boss’s marriage, etc.
From time to time, I'm asked to recommend productivity or time tracking software. It's a question I've resisted answering for two reasons. One is that …Read More
America’s best days
I recently read Laura Hillenbrand’s Seabiscuit. I certainly enjoyed the book as a sports story, but I also enjoyed learning about that period of time …Read More
Time management is like chess
Decades ago, I had a brief interest in chess. I played around with a board and I read through books of the greatest matches. I …Read More
A matter of perception
Friday morning I had the rather exciting experience of taping a segment for the Today Show. I woke up bright and early in my hotel …Read More
Welcome Today Show viewers!
I'm writing this on Thursday night, and I'm scheduled to be on the Today Show tomorrow (Friday) around 7:40 a.m. I'll be talking about my …Read More
33 going on 80
I recently read Sally Koslow’s new book, Slouching Toward Adulthood: Observations from the Not-So-Empty Nest. In it, Koslow chronicles, from a baby boomer perspective, all …Read More
The half-hour problem
Long-time readers of this blog know that I have a favorite data set: The American Time Use Survey. This annual study from the Bureau of …Read More
Writing for the ear
Monday, I had an experience that was both new, and in a way, not. Penguin sold the audio rights to What the Most Successful People …Read More