From explaining the birds and bees to your kids to handling conflicts with an underperforming employee, having difficult conversations is a part of everyday life so why do we put them off so much? Yesterday on ‘Dot Complicated with Randi Zuckerberg’ the topic of difficult conversations [Read More]
Whether you’re texting in real time about the Mad Men series finale, trying to get work done while watching a movie with your family, or just online shopping while you veg out, tech-heavy multitasking can do harmful things to your brain. New research shoes that switching focus [Read More]
An expectant mother-to-be can’t see or hold her child during pregnancy, but she is connected to him/her in a way that no one else is. That’s what makes an ultrasound so exciting: for a moment, she’s able to see the baby that she feels developing inside her.
For visually [Read More]
There’s a certain pattern to cleaning the kitchen, and some of the last two steps including taking the trash out and sweeping up the floor. While the need to heft the bag of garbage out to the dumpster hasn’t yet been eliminated, the folks behind Bruno [Read More]
Last Thursday, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos promoted Maria Renz to the coveted role of technical adviser to the CEO. Renz was formerly CEO of Quidsi, the company that owned Diapers.com, which Amazon acquired in 2011.
The position, which Bezos created more than a decade ago, serves [Read More]
Technology, once again, has disrupted another old-school industry where the old way of doing things will have to adapt to both small and massive companies competing for revenue. Luckily there’s room for everyone, which means that it’s never been a better time to write or your [Read More]
By Kari Riedel.
There are many alarming statistics about the learning loss that occurs when kids leave for summer vacation (aka Summer Slump.)
One EASY way to counter this is to encourage your kids to read every day. For some families, that’s easy peasy. For others, that sounds like a [Read More]
There’s a long held rule that if you were a white shirt, you will spill something on it. That’s why we can’t wait to get our hands on an Elizabeth & Clarke blouse–a.k.a. the world’s first unstainable white [Read More]
Move over, Andrew Jackson: a new national campaign is out to replace the former president with a fresh face on the $20 bill. The “Women on 20s” movement is going viral, with 80,000 people heading online to pick from potential candidates like suffragist Elizabeth Cady [Read More]
There’s nothing fun about needing a tow truck. From the frustration of waiting forever for it to arrive to the unshakable knowledge that you’re about to be gouged for a simple service, it’s a situation most drivers would gladly avoid. And like most industries, the experience [Read More]
