The most important thing I learned in college was how to pick myself up from failure. At this point in your life, if you don’t know how to fail what do you really know?

There are so many new web applications out there to organize your life, but many end up complicating your life more than it was before. So, my GTD method involves using iGoogle, the customizable Google homepage.

To lump all of West Virginia together as a pack of ignorant redneck racist hicks is no more constructive than to claim that everyone who votes for Obama or McCain is a sexist pig who loathes Clinton and could never vote for any woman.

As many of you know, I live/work in Madison, WI now. Sort of. Because I actually live/attend school in Chicago. Sort of. Confused yet?

In my first few weeks, my co-workers were throwing away stuff I had printed before I got to the copier, hiding important files of mine, spreading poisonous rumours about me, and tearing pages out of a law report in the library they had heard I was looking for (all the while thinking they were unwatched).

Obviously, this isn’t as good as it sounds. Nothing in life is free — everything has a catch. Especially something that is “too-good-to-be-true” like this.

All that online pressure, all the instant messages on AIM and Gchat, all those YouTube comments and Facebook messages and wall posts added up to something: Two more delegates for Sen. Barack Obama. In a YouTube video posted shortly before midnight yesterday, Lauren Wolfe and […]

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 […]

As a life transition coach, Andrew Susskind specializes in coaching baby boomers through career transitions. “A lot of people are evaluating where they are, where they’ve been and where they’re going,” he says, and hiring a private coach can make all the difference. Executive coach Joel Garfinkle built his business around that principle, and has […]

An important aspect of the presidential race so far has been the generational divide, with Barack Obama doing very well with younger voters and Hillary Clinton drawing strong support from those who are older. A similar split can be expected in a general election race between Senator Obama and John McCain.
However the election ultimately turns […]

Like other couples, D-D Flannery and her husband have an assortment of buzzing hand-held devices in the bedroom to help keep things lively. The problem is, these devices don’t improve their love life — just their work flow. “If you come to my house in the evening, you’ll find me in bed with the […]