My money and I have a troubled relationship. It’s always trying to run away from me. It’s not that I’m not nice to my money; I’m always taking it out to shows or shopping or for a nice dinner, but at the end of the evening it’s just gone. If I thought I could entice [...]

If they made a movie about my professional life, it would be called Kevin Cummings and the ‘To-Do’ List of Doom. Each workday I start with a nice clean sheet of note paper which I sully with an ugly list of tasks I have to accomplish. This would be tolerable if I could just finish [...]

I’m ashamed to admit it, but in college I played the field — a lot — with many different majors. At first I was young and idealistic and thought my future lay in Computer Engineering. That dream soured when I discovered that Computer Engineers had to understand complicated mathematics like trigonometry, calculus, and advanced bistromathics. [...]