I have earned a lot of money in my life. But I have never had an extravagant life. I don’t own a house. I’ve never bought a new car. I’ve never bought a new piece of living room furniture, and I do not own a single piece of real jewelry. What I have spent money [...]
Browsing category "Money"Thanksgiving drama on steroids: Adding a family business to the mix
November 25th, 2009
I think its safe to say that for the majority of people, Thanksgiving is not about goodness and gratitude, but rather, family drama. 3 Questions you ask me a lot, about money
Posted to: Money
August 10th, 2009
I don't usually write question and answer columns. (Although I have once or twice before.) I do read every single question that people send me. And these are three questions I've been answering a lot lately. 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 [...] 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. How to decide where to live
Posted to: Fulfillment | Money
May 21st, 2009
Three years ago, I made a decision to move from New York City to Madison, WI based purely on research. I put economic development research together with positive psychology research. Then I combed the Internet for city statistics, and I moved. (If you want to read the research I used, I linked to it all [...] 6 Tips for being a CEO without ruining your kids’ lives. I hope.
April 29th, 2009
I get questions all the time about how I manage having kids and a startup at the same time. After trying to answer the question a few times, I realized that there's the pretty-much-BS answer about how it's all about being clear on your values. Or there’s the complicated, too-long-for-interviews answer. For a startup, money doesn't solve problems, it just changes them
Posted to: Entrepreneurship | Money
February 26th, 2009
We finally locked up funding for my company. There are some catches, though, and one of them is that we can’t use the funding to pay back debt. 5 Emerging trends from the recession
February 20th, 2009
As the recession persists, we can watch social shifts and cultural trends. Some are good, some are bad. But in either case, one way to control how the recession affects you is to watch the larger trends and decide where you want to fit. Twentysomething: Obama's salary caps should cap hours too
Posted to: Money
February 9th, 2009
This guest post is part of the Twentysomething series of guest posts that I run periodically. High-income women get more oral sex. Maybe.
January 6th, 2009
It is well known in the sex research arena that the more educated a woman is the more often she will receive oral sex. Figure out how much you should be paid (and three cheers for transparent salaries)
Posted to: Money | Office Politics
July 11th, 2008
Do you know the salary of every employee at your company? I think you should. How I started taming my workaholic tendencies
June 27th, 2008
After my first visit to the farm, I quickly invited myself back. "I'm coming there without my kids," I told him. Career Lessons from Eliot Spitzer’s Call Girl, Ashley Dupre
Posted to: Money | Self-management
March 24th, 2008
In the train wreck of Eliot Spitzer’s political career, there are many workplace lessons. And lots of people are talking about Spitzer’s career. But what about the call girl? How to deal with getting fired (from Yahoo)
December 27th, 2007
I just got fired from Yahoo Finance. How to decide if your commute is too long
Posted to: Money | Time management
December 20th, 2007
The average daily commute in the U.S. is about 25 minutes. The shortest average daily commute is about 15 minutes for people living in Midwest cities like Witchita, Omaha, and Tulsa. New Yorkers have the longest commute — 38 minutes, which is six minutes longer than the average commute time in Chicago. The average commute [...] Twentysomething: Preparing for life without health insurance
Posted to: Entrepreneurship | Money
October 2nd, 2007
By Ryan Healy – About a month ago, my brother, Dan, was in the hospital. Originally, the doctors told him he had a small cut, and he should use some Neosporin to prevent infection. A couple of days later, they told him he had a staph infection. Staph infections are bad, but for my brother [...] Yahoo column: Five financial tools you shouldn't use
Posted to: Money
August 16th, 2007
One of the ways I got my nearly disasterous financial life back on track was by reading a lot of economic advice online. It helps to be part of a community of people thinking hard about their values and their money and the alignment of the two. And it helps to read a wide range [...] 5 steps to taming materialism, from an accidental expert
Posted to: Money
August 7th, 2007
When I was a kid, there was money everywhere. My great grandpa was a lawyer for the Chicago mob in the 1920s, and today, my dad's generation is still living off that money. Sometimes I wonder if the key to being able to squash materialism is to have a lot of it as a kid. [...] New research reveals some new ways to buy happiness, sort of
July 11th, 2007
It turns out that money actually can buy happiness, but not a lot of it. At some point, well under $100,000, the happiness value of a dollar starts to plummet, according to Richard Easterlin, economics professor at University of Southern California. This is because social interactions impact happiness more than money does. |
You can't be a debt snob and be entrepreneurial. Almost all startups are founded on credit cards or money from parents. http://bit.ly/d3Hruw 2 days ago
|
|
|
|






