I met an entrepreneur friend for coffee last week. I’d wanted to chat with him so that I could get some advice about my business. The one question, the only question I had really, was how the heck do I make more money with this thing? I gave him the numbers for what I’d earned so […]

I read this week that there are two reasons why birds fly in formation. One is to conserve energy—the bird in the front of the formation typically breaks the air and forms a slipstream for the others—and the second is to facilitate orientation and communication among the birds. We’re not all that far off from these […]

I used to be very pro-freelance and anti-full-time job. We are writers, creative people, and schedules and bosses restrict us, curtail our freedom and undermine the work that we were meant to do. That is the thinking in writing circles and no doubt you’ve come across the whole “quit your job to go freelance” dream […]

I learned last week that students from 30 Days, 30 Queries recently broke into Discover magazine and The Wall Street Journal. (That’s in addition to acceptances they’ve already received from The New York Times, National Geographic Traveler, CNN Travel, Vice.com, Marie Claire, and many others.) When I ask them—and I do repeatedly—what made the difference, why they succeeded now when they […]