Survival

Here’s a great idea — we’ll have your family meet with a high-powered salesman when they’re utterly distraught. The salesman will attempt to up-sell on all sorts of customized items,…

Imagine living in a place where there is no government, no regulation, no taxation, and certainly no objections to anything that will alter your mind. It’s a place beyond the…

Since the advent of cell phones and the mobile Internet, workers have been freed from the confines of an office — and work in coffee shops, hotel business centers, airport…

If you’re in any career field where your job is at all repetitive, there’s probably a robot coming to take that job from you. There’s been a lot of chatter…

You’ve encountered bad leaders in the work place.  You’ve seen the boss’s son — the character who, just because he was born on third base, suffers from the illusion that…

The modern trend toward ubiquitous smartphones and connected devices actually started in Japan, a long time before it washed onto the shores of the US. In the Land of the…

In the years prior to the housing crash, builders were getting silly with the size of houses. Even in relatively modest neighborhoods, it was not unusual to find homes that…

The nominations are in. Her, Spike Jonze’s film romance story between man and computer, scored five Academy Awards bids on Thursday, February 6th, including a nod for best original screenplay for…

“Can we go back to using Facebook for what it was originally for — looking up exes to see how fat they got?” — Bill Maher The silly things people do!…

“Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.” — Tony Robbins Too often we think of the word “negotiation” in lofty terms, as though it refers…