Author name: Dan Pink

That’s what USA Todaycalls the “estimated 30 million Americans, or roughly one-fifth of the nation’s workforce . . . who spend significant hours each month working outside of a traditional office.”

I just finished Michael Lewis’s new book, The Blind Side. It’s very good. Lewis twines together two stories. One is a story about talent markets — how changes in the speed and power of certain defensive positions in football caused a change in offensive strategy, which in turn made a previously obscure position, the left

AWNM reader David Henderson writes: “Dear Daniel, After reading your book A WHOLE NEW MIND, I was inspired to start a company. It is named Chillcasting and allows people to download audio recordings to help them manage stress effectively. If you have a moment, please visit us at www.chillcasting.com.” Well, I had a moment. Chillcasting

Nearly half of U.S. businesses are based in the home, reports the Census Bureau.

Georgia Tech, already a pioneer in a whole-brained approach to engineering education (see The World is Flat), is teaching poetry to young engineers. Tech’s forward-thinking President Wayne Clough, himself a civil engineer, says: “The pursuit of science and technology is just as creative a process as poetry and the arts. Both require intensely creative people

More evidence that the economy’s statistical apparatus isn’t keeping up with the economy itself. A new study out of Massachusetts finds that free agents in that state are “undercounted by the hundreds of thousands.” According to economic geographer Laurence Goss, 17 percent of Massachusetts’s labor force are sole proprietors. But — amazingly — they’re not

Iconoculture discovers yet another Conceptual Age job: The high concept baby sitter. Sitters in the City, a New York venture, supplies actors, painters, and dancers to care for your kid.

Anthropologist Helen Fisher has an interesting TED talk available for free online. Her subject is mostly the differences among sexual, romantic, and attachment love. But she spends part of her time talking about the gender differences in the human brain. Here’s an excerpt from her talk, which has enormous relevance for the thinking styles described

In another sign of the democratization of design, The Cooper-Hewitt is sponsoring the People’s Design Award. Cast your vote today.

Business Week has an eye-popping cover story that analyzes what’s happened in the U.S. labor market over the past five years. The punchline: Since 2001, the health care sector (which includes pharma and health insurance companies) has added 1.7 million jobs. The rest of the private sector has added . . . uh . .