About Lauren Sandler Hi, I’m Lauren Sandler. I’m a journalist and author who writes about culture and inequality. My new book is called THIS IS ALL I GOT: A New Mother’s Search For home. When I moved to New York City in 1992, homelessness was already considered a national crisis. The night I unpacked my…

There are many different ways to fund a venture. You could use your own money, or borrow from your friends and family, or take out a business loan from a bank. And then there’s the whole matter of investors. While you might get your project off the ground using money from one source or another,…

Pixabay The nature of work has changed enormously in the past decade. We are moving away from the traditional nine-to-five structure and embracing something much more flexible and fluid. Online communication technology allows employees to work from home, a coffee shop, or even a remote beach in Thailand. People are using their personal devices for…

Pixabay As a small business owner, you can’t afford disruption. Anything that slows down operations and harms your profits could prove detrimental to the overall success of your company. And there are so many things that could go wrong. You could lose customers, make a mistake on social media, or be subjected to a cybersecurity…

Luck plays a major roll in our lives. Luck may seem random but there are things we can do avoid bad luck and there are things we can do to increase our chances of good luck. Abundance of bad luck The first part of my adult life was plagued by a myriad of bad decisions,…