Friday links: the work from home edition
I was on Baltimore's WBAL this morning talking about this week's major workplace conversation topic: working from home. Yahoo -- under the leadership of CEO Marissa …Read More
Category Archives: Career
Perks and progress
Whenever I write about lists of great places to work, I make a reference to "free M&Ms." I always thought this was a great hypothetical …Read More
127 timesaving ideas for busy wives
That retro headline is taken from the cover of the May 1963 issue of Good Housekeeping. I recently took on an assignment to compare extant …Read More
What to expect when no one’s expecting
I got to know Jonathan Last because both of us (in separate years) won a Phillips Fellowship. This journalism fellowship -- which is aimed at …Read More
So you want to run a home-based business…
I’m speaking in a few months to a group of women who are in the early stages of starting home-based businesses. Having been self-employed for …Read More
Broaden your scope
One of the “most successful people” I interviewed for my next ebook, on how people spend their workdays, was former race car driver Sarah Fisher. …Read More
The moment of clarity
I keep thinking I should stop subscribing to the New Yorker. The magazines have a tendency to pile up when I'm busy because they come …Read More
Is 2013 the year to ask for a raise?
Over at LinkedIn, Citi's Women & Co Connect discussion group recently faced a question: what's your career resolution for 2013? Of the 5 available options, …Read More
This is the way the world ends
The Mayans were quite an advanced civilization. They had agriculture, written language and, as we’ve been learning in story after story this week, a calendar. …Read More
Micro-credentials
As part of the project I'm doing on digital learning, I got to interview Sal Khan (of Khan Academy) yesterday. I wrote about The Math …Read More