Siri and the little things that kill you
One of the reasons many of us think we do more housework than we actually do is the mental overhead caused by remembering that stuff …Read More
Category Archives: Time Management
USA Today: What else could that ring buy?
My column on wedding spending and time use ran in USA Today this morning, also reprinted below: What Else Could That Ring Buy? by Laura Vanderkam Valentine's Day …Read More
Google and 20 Percent Time
It's an unspoken commandment of writing about the "New Economy": You are required, at least once in your big concept business book, to mention Google's …Read More
Op-eds and putting in the extra hours
I recently signed on to volunteer with the Op-Ed Project, a non-profit organization which seeks to increase the number of columns written by women. According …Read More
After the Breakthrough: Olympic Stars of Yesteryear
The New York Times magazine this weekend will apparently have interviews with former winter Olympics stars, discussing their memories of the games, and their lives …Read More
Strategic Thinking Time
Around New Year's, I spent some time identifying what would be my most important professional projects for 2010. These are the things that, if I …Read More
Time Makeover: Stephanie Graham
As promised, I am finally starting to load some more “time makeovers” up on this blog! The good thing about putting these online is that …Read More
Motherlode: Juggling Full-Time Work…and Bad Assumptions
I was fascinated to read a guest post at Lisa Belkin's NY Times Motherlode blog from Dr. Simi Hoque of the University of Massachusetts. Prof. …Read More
Equally Shared Parenting
Over the past few years, Marc and Amy Vachon have found themselves in the public eye for what, judging by some of the comments on …Read More
What is the most important thing you could be doing?
In some of the pre-pub press on 168 Hours, I've been referred to as an "aspiring time management guru," which isn't entirely true. I wrote …Read More