I was having dinner with an old coworker recently when she told me she was looking at Chinese-language elementary schools for her two-year-old daughter to give her a leg up in the work world when she graduates from college. She told me that a friend’s daughter had graduated from college with a degree in English […]
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I listened to a panel discussion about community recently. One of the speakers said that independence had been so ingrained in her that she couldn’t bring herself to borrow a lawnmower from her neighbor even though he had one, she needed one, and he’d previously offered it to her. This really struck me. I’ve been
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Since I’ve started consulting, I’ve found that I’ve become more organized than ever. I’m not a naturally organized person – I have an unusually good memory that I relied on until my late twenties – but I developed a love of simplicity and systems at a pretty young age. This probably (okay, mostly) stems from
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When I started writing about my self-employed life, I realized that I didn’t have a “traditional” path to self-employment – or to becoming an artist. I didn’t start a tech company; I didn’t come up with a revolutionary idea or invent an innovative product or develop a trendy style. I don’t have an MBA or
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