It’s 5:02 and 34 seconds. You’ve been watching your computer clock tick for the last half hour. You’re done with all your work. You’ve read the entire Internet, reorganized your inbox (sub folders for sub folders for sub folders style), and have sent emails with the subject

What is the weirdest thing you have ever seen on Craigslist? (And don’t say your apartment!?) One time I saw an ad from a dude who was selling a red bicycle but would only sell it in-person to an “Asian girl.” I too enjoy meeting Asian girls, but I have to say

Mark Andreessen is the co-author of Mosaic, one of the original web browsers, and co-founder of Netscape. In this recent three-part series on his blog, Andreessen offers his advice on career-planning. It’s a little Silicon Valley-centric, but there are many useful pointers

If your boss or co-worker is totally insane, can you have him or her institutionalized? It seems like a pretty clever plan—it’s late in the day, you’re hoping to get in a few good hours at the arcade later, but your boss is raving like an absolute lunatic. Instead

If you’re suffering from a particularly bad case of the “Mondays,” you could be falling victim to America’s most subtle predator: Seasonal Affective Disorder, otherwise known as SAD. When the weather changes suddenly, people get colds, but they also get depressed

To call in sick or not to call in sick? There are times when this is somewhat of a moral quandary, and there are times when it is not. When you are legitimately ill, contagious, or have just broken one of your appendages, the choice is clear. By legitimately ill, I mean that

Apparently, love isn’t the only thing that can be lost in translation—the word nuclear, which is difficult enough to pronounce in English, mistakenly snuck its way into a report from a UN interpreter this week, exacerbating tensions between Syria and Israel

Paradigm Shift #1: The office is the new bar

There was a time when office romance was considered anathema to a successful career. “Business and pleasure don’t mix,” said the conventional wisdom

Ever since I started working a full-time magazine job, I’ve been passing out before 9 p.m. each night. I literally fall asleep as soon as my head hits the pillow, sometimes even skipping dinner in favor of extra snoozing. As a result, my DVR is full of shows to watch and

In a recent Newsweek article called “Narcissists in Neverland,” Emily Vencat takes us Gen-Yers to task for making financial sacrifices early in our adult lives while forcing our parents to postpone their retirement to keep us going. She speaks to sociologist Jean Twenge