Lifehacker: Advice

Personal finance blogger Ramit Sethi guest-posts on the Get Rich Slowly site about his best advice for those looking to start a business, no matter the scale: Take a successful entrepreneur out to...

The Stepcase Lifehack blog pulls out a trusted tome, Deirdre McCloskey's Economical Writing, and extracts some wisdom from an accomplished economics professor on writing tight sentences that are t...

Former financial planner Nora Dunn knows that lots of folks are itching to do something after seeing their latest investment statements—maybe to the point of axing their advisor. Not a great idea,...

It takes a lot of work to find a great job, determine what it should pay, and make your resume stand out, but that all led up to the big moment—the one where you stop planning and writing and star...

Ira Glass, host of National Public Radio's This American Life, knows a thing or two about turning the creative process into a polished, finished product—but he also remembers turning out work he d...

Brazen Careerist blogger Penelope Trunk describes her experiences in finding a mentor whose knowledge and perspective complement and augment her own—but more importantly, how she kept the relation...

Martial arts master Bruce Lee was obviously a man who could accomplish lofty self-set goals, and the Little Dragon's principles of effort and work can apply to those cranking widgets rather than b...

Trent at The Simple Dollar blog would rarely recommend getting into debt, but since financing a car is sometimes a necessary evil, he recommends taking a good look at your finances, and the market...

Personal finance blogger Ramit Sethi says it only takes him five minutes a week to make sure he's not being over-charged, intentionally or not, by restaurants and other places where humans swipe h...

The Marc and Angel productivity blog drums up 10 useful cell phone numbers to keep in your contacts list—the kind of numbers you don't use often, but you really want to get at fast when you do. Am...