I try that every time, and it inevitably ends up just breaking off... The corners always get caught on my loofa.

Serious question though. My wife and I use bar soap, but I always feel like I’m wasting the last 15 or 20 percent of it because it gets too thin and just breaks. What do I do about that?

This title feels very click-baity to me. The author of the twitter post never said that one of these things was “better for you”. Simply that one has less sugar and fewer calories. What about the fat content? Or the protein content? Or the glycemic index? Or the fiber content? How full is one going to make you feel…

I’m most proud of living a life where I’m not constrained financially, even on a fairly low budget ($55k for my wife and I). We are comfortable with our situation (decent 1BR apartment in a fairly expensive city) and still spend plenty of money on things that matter to us (adventures, visiting family, nights out with…

“There’s a contingent of personal finance obsessives out there who’ve branded themselves as FI/RE, which is short for Financial Independence and Early Retirement. They’ve cut their day-to-day living expenses to the bone, while earning and investing aggressively, all with the intent of retiring well before the…

I’m surprised at how many people DON’T use some sort of cloud storage at this point. It’s stupid easy. I have a folder in Dropbox for all of my grad school files, so if I create a new file for any class, or modify an existing one, it is automatically backed up.

I’ve heard horror stories of past students losing their…

I suppose this is how I am paying for my desire to read useful life advice (well this and the terribly annoying ads that pop up). I have to read stuff like this that is really better suited to Facebook, Twitter, or any other social media site where people are actually interested in the author’s opinions.

I don’t recall reading the word “indefinitely” anywhere in this article.

Agreed. I am in grad school, and some of my professors say it all the time, and it drives me nuts. And I’ve even found myself saying it when I teach. I have to catch myself constantly.

“you can’t hold people hostage by threatening to automate the shit out of their jobs because you don’t want to pay them wages that are actually in line with today’s cost of living.”

It’s not “holding them hostage”... It’s economics. Businesses are going to find the lowest-cost way to run their business, and if that…

This is something people tend to forget. And it’s already happening.

“Every state increased minimum wage ever enacted has demonstrably boosted thats state economy. Every fucking one!”

I’ve been there. I had the perfect closet in one of my apartments to keep my carboy. I left a fresh batch in there, and came back 12 hours later to a blown airlock and sticky carpet :/

I don’t know about your field, but in my field, plenty of people self-fund their PhDs. They all have some source of outside funding, such as a job, an external grant, or simply savings or a spouse. But we all have to option to forgo an assistantship and pay tuition.

I think the idea with not immediately responding to every email is that your employees don’t become as dependent on your feedback and input. In other words, they become more autonomous. Whether that’s Tim’s philosophy, I don’t know, but I’m imagining that if it only requires a 15 second reply, maybe it’s something the…

To most people, (I would hope that) a big pile of cash isn’t going to make them happy, until they find a meaningful way of putting it to use.

If someone handed me a million dollars today, sure I would be grateful, but I wouldn’t be all that much happier until I found a way to use it to make my life (or someone else’s)…

If you are deciding how much money you want to have without thinking about how much you will spend, then isn’t that number completely arbitrary?

Por que no los dos?

I typically enjoy How I Work, but I can always count on hearing at least one new dumb buzzword like “hyperlocal commerce” every time.

Agreed. The statement “If something is important I handle it right away or book it on my calendar or ask someone on my team to run with it” just wouldn’t work for me. If I’ve got 4 things to do, and they each take 2 hours, I’d rather have a to-do list so that I don’t need to keep track of them in my head, and I…