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When my friend and business partner, Phil Levin, and his wife, Kristen Berman, were planning for their first child, they didn’t go looking for a single-family home in the suburbs. Instead, in 2019, the couple and five of their friends moved into two adjacent buildings in Oakland, Calif. Now there are 20 adults, eight kids and six buildings at the Radish, as the complex is known, where a communal meal is cooked almost every night, everyone helps with child care and the hot tub is always warm.
The case for having roommates (even when you can afford to live alone)
I’ve enjoyed living communally for more than a decade now. But every so often I have one of those days where I long for a place where I can sing in the shower at any hour, leave dishes in the sink, and walk around in whatever state of undress suits me. I wonder whether I might be more productive if I came home to a peaceful, empty apartment. And of course, society in general - and my father in particular - asks when I’m going to ‘grow up’ and get my own place.
| CIOL (Chartered Institute of Linguists)
By Gillian Morris I never know what to tell people when they ask me what I do for a job. A few years ago, I would have proudly and unhesitatingly announced that I was a translator, but more recently, the lines have become blurred. Am I really a translator now? My working hours are increasingly dominated by other language-related pursuits. Since going freelance, I’ve always had other strings to my bow to keep my income steady and sustainable.
Why is it so hard to get families to live in community houses?
In my social circles, becoming a parent is seen as a gigantic sacrifice. You lose sleep, time with friends, time for hobbies. You’ll probably have to move to a less desirable neighborhood to afford the extra space for your kid. If you’re the one carrying the child, you’re ‘destroying’ your body and jeopardizing your professional goals. But what if it didn’t have to be this way? An Indian friend recently told me how his parents couldn’t fathom why anyone wouldn’t want to have a child.
Using a lifestyle medicine approach in primary care to prevent and manage long-term conditions
Gillian Morris Lecturer, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland Brian Webster Trainee specialist practice district nurse, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland Why you should read this article: • To refresh your knowledge of modifiable risk factors for long-term conditions • To enhance your understanding of the concept of lifestyle medicine • To consider ways of implementing lifestyle medicine to prevent and manage long-term conditions With population ageing, the number of people...
Reaction magazine: 39th Edition
Welcome to the thirty-ninth edition of Reaction, a magazine for chemicals, performance technologies and agricultural inputs professionals by KPMG International. In times of economic uncertainty, these industries face unique challenges. Reaction dives deep into advanced solutions and steadfast leadership strategies that enable organizations to not just survive but thrive.
What we learned from a 3-month co-living experiment
Nati & I just wrapped up a 3-month experiment: we rented a big house in the south of Spain for co-living & community-building events. For a long time, we’ve talked about owning a retreat centre. This experiment was a test: is the idea feasible economically? do we actually enjoy the lifestyle? Short answer: yes! and yes! It went better than I could have hoped for, so in this blog I’m going to reflect on the experience to see if I can identify any generalisable lessons.
You still get to choose your own life
The word “privilege” gets thrown around a lot—often as a catch-all to explain why someone else’s life might be better than ours.
Franchising from both sides of the fence - free ebook
An illuminating, free to view, read to franchising for aspiring/existing franchisees and franchisors alike, Franchising from both sides of the fence, offers advice from leading advisors in the sector on the essential topics. See below to view.
Get Off Track | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
Dear Classes of 2020 and 2021, Now is the time to think outside the traditional set of jobs in finance and consulting in New York, Boston, Washington, D.C., and San Francisco. Be a big fish in a small pond. While you may have been one of thousands of Ivy League grads to end up in New York, you may be one of the only ones in your hometown (or wherever you're waiting out quarantine). You'll get more responsibility earlier and thus build life skills faster.
How to travel with no luggage (2019) – Gillian Morris – Medium
For the last four years, I’ve been gradually whittling away at my possessions to the point I carry almost everything I need at all times. I can walk out of the door of wherever I’m living with just my purse and no idea when I’ll be back. I’m hardly the only digital nomad living out of a backpack. In fact, there’s an entire subreddit dedicated to the art of this particular kind of travel.
Bloodstock news: On the 15Th day of #BLOODSTOCKXMAS Bloodstock gave to me……
Latest update from Bloodstock On the 15Th day of #BLOODSTOCKXMAS Bloodstock gave to me…ð‘¹ðŽ A RARE Trivium bundle a with a whole bunch of signed goodies, assorted promo CDs and promo items and one of Matt Heafy's guitar plecs! To enter today’s competition, tell us, in the comments below, which Trivium song title best describes how you'd feel if you didn't win this prize?
Uber Doesn’t Have to Follow Pan Am’s Tragic Arc
Gillian Morris is the chief executive officer and founder of Hitlist, an app for finding cheap flights. Read more opinion Christina Heggie is an investment principal at JetBlue Technology Ventures and invests in early-stage travel startups.
How We Got to 200,000 Users With No Marketing Spend
First thing I need to say: there is no single thing that will get your app to 200,000 downloads with no marketing spend. It takes a versatile team, a ton of work, and more than a bit of luck. But in Hitlist’s year-or-so of existence, we’ve managed to gain over 200,000 ‘free’ users from the most valuable channels of all: word of mouth and earned media. We’ve never paid for an install, we barely touch our social channels, and we haven’t used any conventional ‘growth hacking’ tactics.
Forming an Advisory Board That Does Not Suck
In my recent monthly company update for Hitlist, I asked for advice on how to form an advisory board. Here’s a distillation of the feedback I got.WHEN TO FORM AN ADVISORY BOARDNot too early. “Advisory boards are super helpful (and cheap) if done right, and an expensive (in equity) waste of time if done wrong.” – Josh Elwell, a partner at ValueStream Labs, a FinTech accelerator. “Asking someone to become a formal advisor in the early stage of your company’s growth might be overkill.
5 Days to Decide Whether You’re Ready to Found
A step by step process to evaluate your idea and, more importantly, whether you really want to be an entrepreneur. You have an idea that could grow into a world-changing, money-belching company. So you’re thinking of founding your first startup. The trouble is that there’s no obvious path to becoming an entrepreneur. In the US we have exams to tell you you’re qualified to dispense prescriptions, trade securities, or educate our schoolchildren.
The Employment Act 2002 and the Crisis of Individual Employment Rights
The growth of individual employment rights, as collective procedures have declined, has created an irreversible demand for their enforcement. Parts 2 and 3 of the Employment Act 2002 signify a moment of crisis as the UK, in common with several other European countries, tries to limit the cost of these rights. The British response is essentially to attempt to privatise enforcement through management?controlled procedures in preference to independent public tribunals.
This is a Primer On Starting Startups - AlleyWatch
5 Days to Decide if You’re Ready to Found A step by step process to evaluate your idea and, more importantly, whether you really want to be an entrepreneur You have an idea that could grow into a world-changing, money-belching company. So you’re thinking of founding your first startup. The trouble is that there’s no obvious path to becoming an entrepreneur. In the US we have exams to tell you you’re qualified to dispense prescriptions, trade securities, or educate our schoolchildren.
Don’t Listen to Your Users
Maybe I should give some context. When I was 18, I took my life savings — made from babysitting, odd jobs, and (not weird at all) selling parakeets I bred in my parents’ basement — and bought a plane ticket to Paris. For the next year I worked as a singer and tutor and lived on around $500 a month. I managed to travel to four countries thanks to some creative travel hacks. I fell in love with travel that year, and its ability to change us and the world around us for the better.
Don't Listen to Your Users
Maybe I should give some context. When I was 18, I took my life savings - made from babysitting, odd jobs, and (not weird at all) selling parakeets I bred in my parents' basement - and bought a plane ticket to Paris. For the next year I worked as a singer and tutor and lived on around $500 a month. I managed to travel to four countries thanks to some creative travel hacks. I fell in love with travel that year, and its ability to change us and the world around us for the better.
Traveling the World Made Me a Better Entrepreneur
Photo by Andrew Nguyen After college, I took an unconventional career path. No two-year contract with a bank or consulting firm, no paralegal work, not even a stint on my parents’ couch. I took a contract to teach English in China for a month and decided I’d figure out the rest along the way. Over the next five years, I lived and worked my way through Mongolia, Russia, Thailand, Afghanistan, Syria, Kuwait, Qatar, and Turkey.
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