I’ve talked a lot in The Restless Project about how Americans’ work-life balance is non-existent — stolen by technology, the recession, and data-wielding companies. Today comes further evidence of that in a report that, with a nice twist, assigns a dollar value to it. Here’s the awful truth: You volunteer, [Keep reading]
Sorry, but I’m about to waste the next 20 or so minutes of your day. Click on over to ESRI’s website and look up your zip code. Or anyone’s zip code. And you’ll see precisely the kind of people who live in that place. Esri is the big Geographic Information [Keep reading]
I was hiking this weekend and suffered the bad luck of having a bee (or wasp?) literally fall inside my shirtcollar. A moment later, I felt a prick on my neck, and whatever it was flew away. That stinks, I thought. But one person I was with immediately started turning [Keep reading]
Samantha Huffman, by any millennial measure, would be considered a smashing success. Not only has she been using her college degree in civil engineering from Louisiana State University in the post-Katrina construction boom around New Orleans for the past six years, but she was smart enough to buy a duplex [Keep reading]
UPDATE: Many of you are probably far less selective with your LinkedIn connections than you are with Facebook friends. Based on this news, I’m now advising people to reverse that strategy. Any former LinkedIn connection with an axe to grind could cost you your next job. Stop what you are [Keep reading]
Mass-produced non-compete agreements are anti-capitalist, anti-free market, and decidedly un-American. I’ve covered the topic extensively before, but it needs little elaboration. Preventing a worker from changing jobs, even after quitting or being fired, is unconscionable. Worse, it’s nearly always done by corporations who engage in all sorts of free market [Keep reading]
Raise your hand if you’ve ever heard something like this from your boss: “Sorry, we can’t give you a raise. But be patient. We’ll take care of you.” Now, put your hands down if you were taken care of. I thought so. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella nearly broke the Internet yesterday [Keep reading]
America is working again! That was the irresistible headline you heard all day Friday from business journalists cheering the monthly unemployment report. Story after story screamed that the unemployment rate had sunk below 6 percent for the first time since the recession began. Please ignore all those stories. First off: [Keep reading]
For years, I’ve been arguing that a simple, broken economics formula has put millions of middle-class Americans in a state of perpetual economic anxiety: Families with average incomes can’t afford average homes. In fact, families with really good incomes can’t afford average homes. Here’s new data to support that [Keep reading]
The concept of Moneyball is so simple and self-evident that it should never be controversial. Don’t overpay for things; and it’s possible you do, and haven’t realized it yet, because of the way you value things. In baseball: Maybe it’s better to have two decent platoon players cover third base [Keep reading]
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