Ryan Paugh   05.15.08

I have anxiety. And not the kind you get when employee reviews come around either. I’m talking about clinically diagnosed, heart-palpitating, mind-numbing anxiety. It sucks. But I’ve learned to live with it.

Andrea Emerson   05.15.08

Quit multi-tasking and start single-tasking. Ignore that advice and you might actually grow dumber. People switch projects every 11 minutes, taking a whopping 25 minutes to return to the original task.

Derwin Dubose   05.15.08

You need to understand the home buying process. Purchasing your first home can be a confusing, intimidating process. Before getting started, make sure you understand the real estate process, lest you fall prey to rogue real estate agents, predatory lenders, and botched deals.

Dan Schawbel   05.15.08

At the end of last year, the Pew Internet Research Team found that 47% of people search for information about themselves online (Self-Googling), which was more than double 5 years ago.

Lindsay Berglund   05.15.08

As we get older and develop a keener sense of our own talents we learn that not everyone in the world can sing “well” or draw “well.” But why should that stop our enthusiasm?

Milena Thomas   05.15.08

As a madly in love, happily married woman who recently (and I think successfully) hooked up two of her single friends, I have garnered priceless love data. And I’m willing to share it, now that I’ve tested it on someone else.

Business Week   05.16.08   

The key question today isn’t what’s dumb on Twitter, but instead how a service with bite-size messages topping out at 140 characters can be smart, useful, maybe even necessary. Here’s why I’m looking. In the last few months, the traffic on Twitter has exploded, growing far beyond its circles of bleeding-edge tech enthusiasts and […]

PsyBlog   05.16.08   

Our culture worships planning. Everything must be planned in advance. Our days, week, years, our entire lives. We have diaries, schedules, checklists, targets, goals, aims, strategies, visions even. Career planning is the most insidious of these cults precisely because it encourages a feeling of control over your reactions to future events. As that interview question […]

Putting Things Off   05.16.08   

It’s a sad fact. Most freelancers and entrepreneurs have silly job titles. People have a terrible tendency to get carried away with their new-found power, and end up making fools of themselves. Make sure you’re not one of them. Let’s be honest. Creative Director sounds awesome, doesn’t it? When someone cute asks […]

Forbes   05.16.08   

Raised by a lawyer dad and accountant mom, Arnold whizzed through Vanderbilt University in three years. He became an oil trader for Enron, supposedly earning $750 million for the company in 2001, when he was just 27. He went into business for himself after Enron collapsed a year later. Today he runs hedge fund Centaurus […]

Fortune   05.14.08   

This time around, one-third of the sites with the most votes are general-purpose job boards that serve a broad cross-section of industries, professions, and locations. The other two-thirds are niche sites that focus on a specific industry, career field, or geographic area. That mix is probably no coincidence. “Most job seekers use a number of different […]