If I look back on my blog, I can see that each year there were one or two ideas that just blew me away and ended up dominating my thinking. For example, 2011 my year to be obsessed with school – homeschooling and higher ed, 2010 was my year for disillusionment with happiness research, 2009 was when [...]
ParentingHow School Affects Future Earnings
October 17th, 2011
The best way to understand earning power—no matter what your age—is to understand the factors that go into it. For example, most people who have careers that are plateauing usually have a learning problem that manifests itself as an earning problem. Career Ruin: Homeschooling
September 19th, 2011
When people tell me they want to stay home with their kids and they can’t afford it, I want to yell at them about how when I was trying to write freelance and take care of the kids I had a babysitter refuse to come to the house because we had no food in the house. [...] I'm launching new stuff today.
Posted to: How to blog | Parenting
August 1st, 2011
I am not good at launching stuff. It stresses me out. I am not good at focusing on multiple things. Ryan Healy used to hate working with me because of this, and, frankly, I hate working with me because of this too. Why most career coaching fails
July 22nd, 2011
Melissa left yesterday. She moved back to Austin. She moved for a job that I think is totally stupid, but her future employer reads this blog, so I have to watch what I say. On the other hand, she ended up giving references the same day I posted about me worrying about her having an [...] On Sunday my son sold his pig
Posted to: Entrepreneurship | Parenting
July 19th, 2011
When the pig litters came in January, the Farmer helped my son pick out pigs for his 4H project. They picked four, because you never know, really, how a pig will grow. So you start with four and pick two after a few months. My accidental vacation
Posted to: Parenting | Self-management
July 8th, 2011
I have never been a fan of vacations. Why would I need a vacation from my life if I like my life? Are you really doing your job?
Posted to: How to blog | Parenting
June 19th, 2011
Father's Day is a big deal in our house because we have two dads. We have the boys' biological dad – my Ex – and we have the Farmer. On Sundays, including Father's Day, we all spend the day together, on the farm, in mostly harmony. The farmer protests at the WI Capitol
Posted to: Fulfillment | Parenting
March 14th, 2011
The farmer tells me that farmers are going to the Capitol to protest on Saturday. Volkswagen Super Bowl ad is an anthem to Gen X
February 3rd, 2011
Now that I live on a farm, which, by the way, has been inescapable for three days because of snow, I keep up with the world by watching trending topics on Twitter. The argument for paying moms less
February 2nd, 2011
This is a guest post from Cathy Reisenwitz, who blogs at Birmingham SEO Blog. The farmer reviews three business books
July 13th, 2010
When I first met the farmer, I knew he was not a normal farmer because normal farmers don’t email bloggers for a date. But also, he gave himself away because he quoted Garrison Keillor to me. Then, when I thought I could not put up with him dumping me anymore, and this time would be [...] 8 Tips for anger management
January 8th, 2010
People at work are asking me why I am not working as many hours as I used to. I am. But I am working on anger management. Here are seven tips I've tried using: There's no magic pill for being lost.
Posted to: Parenting | Self-management
December 4th, 2009
When I was in the mental ward, it was mostly girls in their teens with messed up track records and eating disorders. But my roommate was from Kellogg, a top-ten business school. Shifting the balance of power. (Mainstream media stinks.)
Posted to: Journalism | Parenting
November 6th, 2009
I wake up Wednesday at 4am to a phone call: The Guardian, in London, asking for an interview about my miscarriage twitter. Then a half-hour later, an Irish radio station. And then the phone kept ringing. How to deal with doubt: Take a leap
Posted to: Fulfillment | Parenting
October 22nd, 2009
The farmer broke up with me five times the first five months we were together, last year. So I learned that he had huge commitment issues. How to divorce new-millennium style (and I love Kate Gosselin)
Posted to: Parenting
June 29th, 2009
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 [...] 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. Tips for coping when your startup is out of cash
May 15th, 2009
My company is running out of money again. Well, really, it already happened. But it’s happened so many times that I am sort of used to it. It's a routine. You may recall that part of the routine is not paying my electric bill. But there is more. 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. |
Super Bowl Sunday coup: Times Sqare is empty, which inspires me to try to get last-minute tickets to The Lion King. Orchestra seats! Score! 2 days ago
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