The brilliant Joanna Stern wrote a piece for the Wall Street Journal this week decrying the silly “put a bluetooth device in everything” gold rush with a brilliantly-headlined story, “Smart Tampon? The Internet of Every Single Thing Must Be Stopped.” You should go read it, and then come back and [Keep reading]
Feel like you’re bouncing around between jobs? Have no fear, you are hardly alone. A typical young adult in the U.S. has held an average of 7.2 jobs by age 28, new research shows, which is roughly equivalent to having one new employer each year. The study, released Friday by the U.S. [Keep reading]
Part of an ongoing series, Women in Tech. Dr. Dena Haritos Tsamitis is one of the most powerful voices in the world of technology, and one of the most accomplished. She helped found Carnegie Mellon University’s CyLab, among the first organizations designed to encourage cybersecurity research sharing among schools, private industry, and government. [Keep reading]
All you tax procrastinators dreading this weekend: I’m about to give you some good news. You can procrastinate for one more weekend! Tax filing date is NOT April 15 this year. It’s Monday, April 18. Really. Perhaps I shouldn’t have said anything. After all, thanks to the tax ID theft [Keep reading]
March Madness? What March madness. Why do we like betting on march madness? We all like to think the annual college basketball tournament is about amazing upsets, but it’s not. In the same way, we like to think that investing is about picking great stocks. It’s not. People who think [Keep reading]
(Kevin Hurley, Global Brand Ambassador for Teeling Whiskey, stopped by Peter Dillon’s in NYC last night to help me explain why the history of whiskey is the history of Ireland. Teeling, a new entrant, is meant to be sipped, not gulped, like Jameson. But it’s not quite as expensive as [Keep reading]
There was much hand-wringing recently when Hasbro announced that it would make the popular board game Monopoly cashless. Now, players will use something more like credit cards. “My kids won’t learn math,” yelled parents everywhere, in perhaps the biggest indictment ever of the way Americans learn math. In [Keep reading]
January brings a lot of sobering realities. Most of us start the month with a literal or metaphorical headache. We’ll likely be heavier, facing bigger credit card bills, and headed away from our families and back to the grind. We’ll probably be facing the worst weather of the year and the darkest days, [Keep reading]
AHHHH!!! It’s that time of year again when you are probably panicking over that one person who haven’t quite figured out yet. Figured out what gift to buy, I mean. Well, I’m here to the rescue, thanks to my brilliant friend Katie Freeman (she’s the one hugging the books. And [Keep reading]
The following is excerpted from the new book The Debt-Free Degree by John F. Wasik. The ebook is available on Amazon.com and other sites. You can conquer the student debt beast by saving early and often – if you’re in a position to do so. We opened up Section 529 [Keep reading]
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