I recently spent two days walking around DC, Maryland, and Virginia, covering 39 miles in the name of healthy cleavage. Translation: the Avon Walk for breast cancer.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Don’t try to monetize your blog straight away. Focus on building a loyal base of readers and visitors before you think about money […]

When I think about lifestyle design, I usually think about automated income, mini-retirements, making money online, traveling the world, and the 4-Hour Work Week. The truth, however, is that there are an unlimited number of tools in the lifestyle design arsenal. Lifestyle design is as old as life itself […]

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?

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.

Emailing agencies to look for work is a key (and often very necessary) marketing strategy for many start-up translators. But in an era of MySpace friends and Facebook pokes, it’s too easy to forget that commercial email is a whole different ballgame […]