Author: Christopher Palma

According to DataReportal’s Digital 2024 Global Overview Report, the average internet user spends almost seven hours online every day. We rely heavily on technology in our work, education and social interactions. It even helps us unwind after a long day by streaming our favorite TV shows and movies or reading

Planning for the future is all in a day’s work for Digital Skills Authority president Deborah Collier. She has been doing it for decades, using her extensive educational background to create implementable strategies for businesses and governments for more than 30 years. Collier’s first role in the early ’90s was

Janet Bava has always been a little unconventional. For her 15th birthday, she opted to skip the traditional quinceañera party that’s common for Latin American teen girls. She instead decided to take her friends and family on a weeklong cruise instead. She didn’t know it at the time, but that

There are moments in entrepreneurship where a spark of ingenuity meets opportunity. Sometimes, this flicker ignites, forging companies that become part of our everyday lives. For some founders, their billion-dollar company’s reputations precede them. Learn more about these visionaries and how they wielded success to create 10 of the most

For serial entrepreneurs, finding success can take a few tries. For Erin King, her third try’s the charm. King founded her first company, Jump Digital Media, in 2009 at age 25. “We built websites, and it was a disaster from the start,” King admits. The company crashed and burned in

“Mom, can I get a phone? Dad, can I get social media?” (rinse, repeat… multiple times per day). It’s a scenario most parents of teens and preteens can relate to. But, more and more mental health professionals and government representatives are speaking up about the risks to children if the

Why does it seem so much easier to have a candy bar every afternoon, instead of a piece of fruit? Why do we procrastinate instead of getting things done now? Why do we hit the snooze button instead of getting up to exercise? If you think it’s because you’re lazy

Alexandra Solomon, Ph.D., doesn’t just write self-help books. The practicing individual and couples therapist’s recent book Love Every Day: 365 Relational Self-Awareness Practices to Help Your Relationship Heal, Grow, and Thrive, is a collection of daily morsels of relationship wisdom, like offering empathy before advice and learning the difference between

I was at the round kitchen table in my grandmother’s condo in Pittsburgh where she still lives at 90-something years old, and she was writing me another check. This one to replace the rent check that had been stolen from my mailbox and somehow cashed.  “I want you to talk

When I ended my call with Stephanie Harrison, author of New Happy—a book that illustrates how, through generations of beliefs handed down to us, we’ve internalized false ideologies about happiness— she asked me a question no one I’ve interviewed has ever asked: “How can I support you in your life?”