Productivity for spontaneous sorts
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been doing time makeovers for a number of readers. Last week, we looked at Lisa Lane, who’d taken on …Read More
Category Archives: Entrepreneurship
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
Innovation and food trucks
I interviewed Matt Candler, the head of a design lab called 4.0 Schools, last week. This design lab is focused on education innovation, be it …Read More
Money and morality tales
Years ago, the authors of The Millionaire Next Door made a splash with what should be an obvious point: being a millionaire amounts to having …Read More
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
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
The New Tupperware
A few years ago, I went to a Tupperware party in a friend’s apartment. It was a somewhat surreal experience. The official Tupperware representative was …Read More
The 4-Year Career
Over at Fast Company, Anya Kamenetz has a fascinating article on "The Career of the Future." Complete with timelines of several people's working lives, the …Read More
My money philosophy
I’m attempting to distill my thoughts about money into talking points for All the Money in the World publicity. In my maturation as an author …Read More
My random resolution list
I really like the idea of New Year's resolutions. I guess that's part of writing in the self-help genre! The idea of striving to live …Read More