Today I found myself re-reading the latest ebook from Seth Godin (A Weekday Routine Is Always Disrupted By A Weekend… | Coffee Muses) and ended up following the link to Hugh Macleod’s Gapingvoid.com where I stumbled over this gem…A list of 6 ways to execute “Evil Plans” within a large company. Number 5 struck a [...]

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This was to be the start of my last year at my former employment. A couple of years ago or so, I thought the 30th anniversary of Earth Day would be an auspicious time to start a new phase of my life…Then the knee jerk reaction to the economic picture of the autumn of 2008 [...]

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Over the centuries, the United States has been most conspicuous for one trait: manic energy. Americans work longer hours than any other people. We switch jobs more frequently, move more often, earn more and consume more.
via Op-Ed Columnist – The Commercial Republic – NYTimes.com.
From that opening thought David Brooks spins off in a business centric [...]

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An extremely interesting analysis of the state of the economy and where it may lead from here. Thanks to Jason Kottke for the pointer
If anything, our government policies should encourage renting, not buying. Homeownership occupies a central place in the American Dream primarily because decades of policy have put it there. A recent study by [...]

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I’ve been wondering why the impact of the financial crisis on the overall retirement “system” hasn’t gotten more attention in the media. We already knew the system was in bad shape before September 2008. According to the Fed’s Survey of Consumer Finances, in 2007, only 60.9% of households where the head of household was age [...]

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