(photo credit: Andy Welsher)
A new study on longevity reveals that (shocker) slacking off and not caring about anything will probably make you die faster.
“What characterized the people who thrived is a combination of their own persistence and dependability and the help of other people,” Friedman says. The young adults who were thrifty, persistent, detail-oriented and responsible lived the longest.
Time to work on that financial plan you’ve been putting off, no?
(photo credit: Andy Welsher)
A new study on longevity reveals that (shocker) slacking off and not caring about anything will probably make you die faster.
“What characterized the people who thrived is a combination of their own persistence and dependability and the help of other people,” Friedman says. The young adults who were thrifty, persistent, detail-oriented and responsible lived the longest.
Time to work on that financial plan you’ve been putting off, no?
Amanda Hocking (photo courtesy Business Insider)
Technology changes everything, again.
Amanda Hocking is living the dream: she’s in her mid-twenties, writing what she wants to write, and making a serious profit without any of the usual middlemen. No publishers, no editors, no marketers, no book-signing tours.
The Kindle store allows her to connect directly with readers, who sometimes pay only a dollar to download her work. But multiply one dollar by 100,000 downloads, and then imagine taking home 70% of that. (Amazon keeps the rest.)
This is good news for young writers looking to make a name (and a profit) for themselves, but what about all those people who make their living as publishers, editors, and marketers?
Amanda Hocking (photo courtesy Business Insider)
Technology changes everything, again.
Amanda Hocking is living the dream: she’s in her mid-twenties, writing what she wants to write, and making a serious profit without any of the usual middlemen. No publishers, no editors, no marketers, no book-signing tours.
The Kindle store allows her to connect directly with readers, who sometimes pay only a dollar to download her work. But multiply one dollar by 100,000 downloads, and then imagine taking home 70% of that. (Amazon keeps the rest.)
This is good news for young writers looking to make a name (and a profit) for themselves, but what about all those people who make their living as publishers, editors, and marketers?
“The GAO examined numerous federal agencies, including the departments of defense, agriculture and housing and urban development, and pointed to instances where different arms of the government should be coordinating or consolidating efforts to save taxpayers’ money.
The agency found 82 federal programs to improve teacher quality; 80 to help disadvantaged people with transportation; 47 for job training and employment; and 56 to help people understand finances, according to a draft of the report reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.”
Have any of these fifty-six programs helped YOU? How about SPEND.GROW.GIVE?
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“Xatori, a Silicon Valley software start-up, aims to create a network of electric car enthusiasts who make their household power outlets and home chargers available for drivers who need to top off their battery or who find themselves out of range of the few public-charging stations currently available.”
Would you ever pay for a total stranger’s gas? What about letting them charge their phone in your garage?
Are electric car owners just more generous?
“Oil markets have been spooked by fighting that has tended to play out near oil facilities such as the Ras Lanuf oil terminal, in eastern Libya. The complex is currently in the hands of rebels, although Libyan warplanes have launched air strikes near rebel positions on the outskirts of the town, according to witnesses.
The fact that many of Libya’s key oil installations are in the hands of rebels creates a headache for oil companies already hit by the U.S. trade sanctions adopted last month against Libya. The violence is deterring tankers from loading cargoes in Libyan ports, and even when they succeed, it is unclear who they should be paying for the crude—the opposition forces or the Gadhafi regime.”
Is the fall of a violent dictator in the Middle East worth more expensive gas prices in the U.S.?
“(Reuters) – BP Plc (BP.L)(BP.N), whose Macondo well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico caused the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history last year, co-owns the well that received the first deepwater drilling permit since the disaster.
BP is Noble Energy Inc’s (NBL.N) partner in the well, holding a 46.5 percent interest, BP said.”
If BP owns less than 50% of Noble Energy, how much influence do BP executives have over Noble’s business activities? Would an ownership percentage like this affect your decision to invest in a company like Noble?
“In a recent e-mail to employees, company founder and CEO Jason Calacanis and Mahalo President Jason Rapp said the start-up trimmed a tenth of its workforce due to a reduction in traffic caused by Google’s change to its search algorithm, according to the blog CenterNetworks.
The Google changes were meant to push down low-quality sites in search results, but some unexpected websites such as Mahalo lost their ranking as well, the report said. With less traffic visiting Mahalo, revenue took a hit, the e-mail said, according to CenterNetworks.”
How can online businesses protect themselves against rapid changes in the technology industry? Does this news make you think twice about investing in web-based companies?
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