This is my blanket category for the site; it’s an attempt to explain a concept in a deeper way.
I’ve written about the idea of a four-day work week twice before — here and here — and I just wrote a piece for Vocoli (might be online tomorrow) on the same topic, so I’ve been thinking about it a lot… Continue Reading
From an article on CityLab about how cost-of-living really mostly means cost-of-your-rent: This is based on RPP, or Regional Price Parity. That’s a weighted statistic that tracks the different price levels of things like food, housing, etc. The data above is based… Continue Reading
I’ve moved more than 900 miles twice in the past 24 months. The first one was New York City to Minneapolis (about 1,200 miles) in July of 2014. The second one was Minneapolis to Dallas (about 900 miles) a few weeks… Continue Reading
This past January was the 12th anniversary of the disappearance of Rachel Cooke in Texas; as a result, it got some new investigators and a new focus, including James Knutson and Jason Waldon being assigned to the case full-time. If you’ve… Continue Reading
Work shouldn’t be EVERYTHING, right? Continue Reading
I use Bitly for my links on this blog, and I know most major organizations do as well — I can tell you from personal experience that PBS and ESPN do, for example. Their business model is interesting, though: they… Continue Reading
You likely know the tragedy of Flight MH17 by now, but you may not know this story about Cor Pan, a Dutch man. Because he was flying on Malaysian Airlines — and remember, Flight 370 was only a few months… Continue Reading
Just was reading a little about this case — Dana Boshell disappeared in July 2012, it appears (in terms of last contact with family and last bank account usage), but her disappearance wasn’t reported until October 2012. In the words of one… Continue Reading