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We all know that we need continuous training to get continuously better. That’s true in every profession. Football players continually train, watch films, exercise, and run into cement walls to make sure they’re always at the top of their game; mimes continually don’t talk to anyone and get trapped in boxes so they can hone their particular craft; and you need to do the same if you want to be the best whatever-you-are they you can be.
Unfortunately, when it comes to spending money on business skills training, most of us put it slightly below the need to upgrade the filing cabinets. (Note to reader: if you have ever stared longingly at a new filing cabinet because it’s just so much more amazing than the filing cabinet you currently own, then you desperately need to find some better ways to entertain yourself.) So what can you do to get the training that you need? Fortunately, I have a few ideas:
Last week, NBC ran a
So, today is Administrative Professionals Day, and bosses the world over are asking their administrative assistants to pick out presents for themselves that their bosses can then pretend to give them. If I were an administrative assistant, I would probably buy myself a helicopter and then write my boss the nicest thank-you note ever. Better to ask for forgiveness than permission, right?
So apparently a Fox affiliate in Dallas-Fort Worth ran a 
By now there’s a good chance that you’ve heard of Bitcoins. If you haven’t, Bitcoins are fake money that some guy invented about four years ago, kind of like the bottle caps you sometimes use as poker chips when you can’t afford to buy real poker chips. Then, because playing the stock market was apparently not crazy speculative enough, people started exchanging this fake money for real money. Then, because stockpiling gold and survival rations was apparently a little too boring, people started investing in Bitcoins as a hedge against the impending global financial apocalypse. The price jumped from something like 4 cents per Bitcoin to $250 per Bitcoin in four years, which is kind of like me going from a salary of $40,000 to $250 million in four years, a performance-based bonus structure I have not yet managed to find. And then, people suddenly remembered that Bitcoins were fake money, and so the price collapsed by 70% over the last week.
By now I’m sure you’re familiar with the Princeton mom, the woman who wrote 
