There are some great blogs and websites out there that give you lots of tips to help you land a job. All the advice is basically the same, and that’s good. Consistent advice means many people agree. But most of the advice is common sense and that’s not the kind of stuff we care about [...]

For the longest time I’ve been a huge fan of ESPN. I even love their old school 80s logo. I love their enthusiasm and it really looks like everyone on the channel loves to work there. And those Sportscenter commercials are the best. But perhaps writing Weakonomics and my business education has jaded me. Now [...]

On this blog and many others, the focus is always on news and topics with national or international implications.  Links come from large publications and the scope is usually wide.  But I want to remind you that while the topics people like me cover are important, you can’t ignore your local economy and political system. [...]

Lately, I’ve been contemplating my adulthood. Philosophical things like, why should someone even pay me $x to do stuff? I should be sitting in a run down apartment playing Halo, drinking Busch Light, and debating whether I should study for my finance test in the morning. But those days have passed me by. Partially by [...]

Man, I haven’t seen Saved By The Bell in ages. And I still haven’t, but I started thinking about it the other day after catching a few episodes of equally nostalgic Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. It got me thinking about where the characters from the show would be today, if they were real. So what [...]

Dr. Andrew Wakefield’s story is a classic example of bad incentives. Back in 1998, he published a landmark study that linked children’s vaccines to autism. The study was of 12 children and was considered groundbreaking. It sparked a huge drop in the use of childhood vaccinations. Celebrities like Jenny McCarthy have for years endorsed this [...]

I’m hardly basing my theory on any observable actions. This is largely a theory based on me thinking what I could do if I were unemployed. And that’s hustle. For those of you that don’t know, hustling is traditionally referred to only in the context of prostitution or pimping. While that is one type of [...]

Yesterday, I summed up my predictions from last year and compared them to what really happened.  As much as I shouldn’t make predictions, since I have no real basis for them, I’m going to do it anyway.  This is because if I’m right you’ll have all the more respect for me.  But if I’m wrong, [...]