I’ve taken on a new role: options oracle. I’m getting more and more letters like this one, seeking advice:
Dear George,
I’m totally bored with my job. It’s safe. I make an OK salary. My bosses love me, and I have no big performance pressures. Work is uncomfortably comfortable.
My dream is to grow my app-development business. It generates revenue . . . Read More
We’re all getting used to hearing about problems with data security. After the massive Target breach last year, when something similar happened to Home Depot this summer it didn’t seem all that surprising. What was surprising was the Sony cyberattack, a story that’s been making headlines for weeks. If a big corporation can’t keep hackers out of its email networks…
The number of people 50 and older who are starting or buying their own businesses is growing steadily. There are a lot of reasons why. For some people, age discrimination has either made it difficult (or impossible) to find meaningful employment at a 9-to-5 job at acceptable pay levels. For others, it’s the fulfillment of a lifetime dream. Or it’s…
There was a time, not so long ago, when retirement meant the same thing to everyone. This is how it went: 1. You and your long-time employer had made mutual investments in your retirement fund and provided lifelong health insurance. 2. You were around 65. 3. You collected your retirement gift at a celebratory lunch or dinner thrown by…
Last week my wife and I were at a gala where everyone I met claimed to be an entrepreneur. Dentists, lawyers, real estate developers, marketing consultants, CEOs of large and small non-profits, retirees who flip houses, lawn care service owners, restaurateurs, auto dealers, investment advisors, and mass purveyors of magazine subscriptions: All of them told me they were entrepreneurs. Clearly,…
In our 20s all of our body parts were organic. What we needed was always at the ready. If we wanted to read, we grabbed a book and sat down. If we wanted to run, we put on track shoes and ran. When we wanted vertical or horizontal intimacy, we simply took off our clothes. We could eat anything we wanted…
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