Don’t have piles of money to invest? Lacking the time to constantly scan the stock exchange? Just want to be able to afford to live? This is the finance guide for you, fellow regular human. … The Man Devin Feldman, Los Angeles, CA Age: 24 Occupation: Digital...
Cash is rapidly becoming a thing of the past for many people — who needs filthy bits of paper when we have credit cards and Venmo? So it’s not unthinkable that all those coins and notes could, one day, be phased out. More immediately realistic, of course, is the...
Don’t have piles of money to invest? Lacking the time to constantly scan the stock exchange? Just want to be able to afford to live? This is the finance guide for you, fellow regular human. … The Man Dan, New York City Age: 36 Occupation: Marketing manager...
It’s pretty common for people at either end of the political spectrum to argue over how their tax money should be spent. For many of us, though, it’s hard to even get a clear idea of how it’s being spent right now, let alone figuring out where...
Most of us work more than we live, which is to say we spend considerably more time at the office and with our coworkers than we do with the human beings we actually want in our lives. It also means that the stressors and anxieties of work...
Moving in with someone is a grand experiment in trying to love a person in spite of knowing intimately which foods cause them the most gastrointestinal distress. A more significant but often-overlooked challenge is learning how to love someone whose financial habits are wildly different from yours — and...
In this installment of our “What Makes Me a…” column, we asked seven people how a person should behave to be considered smart. Turns out, it’s not all about your IQ. … Rachel Winograd, assistant research professor at the Missouri Institute of Mental Health: Someone smart is...
In 2001, Cary Carbonaro and her then-husband were on their way to buy a new car when he told her, “I can’t put the car in my name because of my credit.” Carbonaro was confused. The newlyweds were living in New York, and she was under the...
I was fired as a writer’s assistant on The Cleveland Show because I couldn’t type fast enough. You had to be a veritable court reporter to keep up with Seth MacFarlane’s staff of snarky motor-mouths, and I was hunting-and-pecking and missing jokes. After the executive producers gave...
Don’t have piles of money to invest? Lacking the time to constantly scan the stock exchange? Just want to be able to afford to live? This is the finance guide for you, fellow regular human. … The Woman Mathilda, Los Angeles, CA Age: 36 Occupation: Senior packaging...
You probably think that there’s not much financial advice a millionaire CEO could give you that would apply to your life. And you could argue that there’s little relevant wisdom that someone who’s already retired can impart when you’re still in the process of starting out. Same...
Whether they preferred a quick jaunt or a four-hour trek, some of the greatest minds in history — Einstein, Gandhi, Beethoven and Jesus to name just a few — walked to relieve stress, mend relationships and write novels, source code or symphonies. “I’ve hung around a lot of brilliant people, and...