Research consistently shows that the majority of people who receive a job offer accept it without negotiating. Not because they think the number is fair, not because they have looked at the market and concluded it reflects their value, but because the negotiation conversation feels so uncomfortable that avoiding it seems worth whatever money is left on the table. This is an … [Read more...] about How to Negotiate Your Salary (Without Feeling Like a Jerk About It)
Everything You Need to Know Before Getting a Dog
The moment most people decide they want a dog is rarely a carefully considered one. It is a friend's dog at a dinner party that sits on your lap the whole evening. It is a video on your phone at eleven at night. It is a walk past a rescue organization with a window full of faces looking out. The decision arrives emotionally and fast, and the research, if it happens at all, … [Read more...] about Everything You Need to Know Before Getting a Dog
The Best Walking Pad Treadmills for Working From Home
Sitting for eight hours and then going to the gym is not the same as moving throughout the day. Walking pads solve this problem quietly, cheaply, and more effectively than most people expect. The average desk worker sits for somewhere between nine and eleven hours a day. This number includes the commute, the workday, the meals, and the evening wind-down, and it has been … [Read more...] about The Best Walking Pad Treadmills for Working From Home
What to Do in the First 30 Days of a New Job
The first thirty days of a new job are unlike any other period in your professional life. You have more license to ask questions than you ever will again. You have less accountability than you ever will again. You are being watched closely by people who have not yet formed a fixed opinion of you, which means those opinions are still being written and you have more influence … [Read more...] about What to Do in the First 30 Days of a New Job
The Supplements That Are Actually Worth Taking
Walk into any pharmacy or health food store and the supplement aisle will present you with hundreds of products making claims that range from plausible to genuinely fantastical. Fat burners. Testosterone boosters. Brain enhancers. Immune system supporters. Most of them share two things in common: they are expensive, and the evidence for what they claim to do is thin to … [Read more...] about The Supplements That Are Actually Worth Taking