The generation leading the revolution in divorce is, of course, Gen X. The biggest change is that there is a generation of people getting a divorce who were more or less equals in parenting and in work. Baby boomers talked about it, but when the women went to work, they did all the housework and [...]
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Hatemail: Email I get that I hate
June 22nd, 2009
 People always ask me to answer questions on my blog. So I am sort of going to answer questions. Questions I hate (that I have edited to save people from the trauma I probably caused David Dellifield):
What's the connection between abortion and careers?
Posted to: Finding a career | Women
June 17th, 2009
I have had two abortions.
How to be a tall person at work
Posted to: Management | Self-management
June 16th, 2009
The Institute of Social and Economic Research recently published a study about the connection between popularity in high school and earning power later in life. New York magazine, information source to the rich and popular, summarized the study like this: "This study may seem to burst our Revenge of the Nerds fantasies, but it's logical [...]
Do you belong in NYC? Take the test
Posted to: Fulfillment | Money
June 11th, 2009
More than 80% of young people say they want to live in New York City, according to Time Out New York. I can understand that. I lived there for seven years. Of course, NYC is amazing. But I have also lived for about ten years each in Chicago, LA, and Boston. And now I live [...]
How to feel like you have time to read everything
Posted to: Productivity
June 10th, 2009
The cocktail party conversations I have about what I do for a living reveal so much about the world. For example, if I say I have an Internet startup, people generally think: She’s unemployed. If I say I write a syndicated newspaper column that runs in 200 papers, people are impressed. If I tell people [...]
Career decisions shed light on health care crisis solutions
Posted to: Finding a career
June 4th, 2009
One way to understand the possibilities for solving the US health care crisis is to take a better look at how people make career decisions.
New gender gaps for the new millennium
June 2nd, 2009
I have said about ten million times that there is no more glass ceiling, there is no more salary gap between men and women, and there is no reason to keep bitching about sexual harassment because it’s merely a legal issue, not a men-are-evil issue.
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Skateboard class emergency: My Xanax spills into the halfpipe. Too steep for my feet. I have to ask a kid on his board to pick up my pills. 6 days ago
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