Many people have no idea how the stock market works. It is actually quite simple. The owner(s) of a private company decide they want to sell shares to the public. They file documents with the SEC and hire an investment banking firm to go on a road show to drum…

I bet you’ve heard of the freshman fifteen? You know, those fifteen pounds that you will statistically put on by the end of your freshman year in college. How about the freshman 50? Because that’s how many pounds I gained during my freshman year of college! There were many things…

I recently watched a Netflix show on algorithms and it got me thinking. We tend to associate algorithms with computers, but they are all around us. Simply put, an algorithm is a set of rules for solving a problem in a finite number of steps. A simple example is a…

The pandemic has caused many workers to perform a top-down reevaluation of their entire lives — including their choice of employment. …

New York As the owner of a small Italian restaurant on the lower east side of Manhattan, Giovanni took great pride in the appearance of his business. Each morning, he cleaned the windows, swept the sidewalk, and verified the electronic ‘Open’ sign was working properly. Moving inside, he mopped the…

Bob was overweight for many years and always had a number of excuses for never losing the weight. On a sunny Saturday afternoon, Bob was teaching his granddaughter how to ride a bike when he felt as sudden pain in his chest. It went away as fast as it had…

Brian counted down the minutes until 8pm. That was the predetermined time the tax team decided as quitting time for tonight. Some nights it was 9pm, others it was 11pm. It was busy season after all and massive amounts of overtime were required, including most weekends. Something didn’t sit well…

To celebrate her first year of marriage, a Twitter user recently posted a simple question: What’s your best relationship advice? I love these crowdsourced questions because you can learn so much about what works for other people. More than 2,000 comments were made. Here are some of the highlights: Patient…

The adrenaline was still pumping as Roderick White sat down at the press conference table. Winning the Super Bowl was every NFL player’s dream the moment they picked up a football as a child. The flash of the cameras bounced off his face as his huge smile lit up the…