Reading is one of the most valuable skills children learn. Not only does reading enable us to navigate the modern world, it provides an endless source of learning and entertainment. I am incredibly thankful that all of my children are avid readers who love nothing more than to have a …
Read More »How Children Read Differently From Books vs. Screens
Scrolling may work for social media, but experts say that for school assignments, kids learn better if they slow down their reading. In this pandemic year, parents have been watching — often anxiously — their children’s increasing reliance on screens for every aspect of their education. It can feel as …
Read More »The Best Personal Finance Books of 2020
On the bookshelf right next to where I do most of my financial writing, you’ll find an array of personal finance books. Some of them have been there for years — they are the essential personal finance books I recommend to everyone, full of timeless advice. Many others are more …
Read More »An AI reporter’s favorite books of 2020
Transform 2021 Join us for the world’s leading event about accelerating enterprise transformation with AI and Data, for enterprise technology decision-makers, presented by the #1 publisher in AI and Data Learn More The older I get, the more I wish I could stop time so I could read more books. …
Read More »What Happens To SingLit If S’pore Closes The Chapter On Epigram Books?
“The (Covid-19) pandemic has set us back by at least three to five years,” says Edmund Wee, founder of local publishing house Epigram Books. “There are no plans for growth. We need to consolidate for the next few years in order to survive this pandemic.” If not for the Covid-19 …
Read More »10 Personal Finance Books to Jumpstart Your Financial Education
There are a lot of books out there on personal finance topics, with more getting published each year. Many of them are quite good — for the most part, you won’t go wrong picking up a personal finance book from the bookstore or the library or Amazon (provided you avoid …
Read More »10 Personal Finance Books to Jumpstart Your Financial Education
There are a lot of books out there on personal finance topics, with more getting published each year. Many of them are quite good — for the most part, you won’t go wrong picking up a personal finance book from the bookstore or the library or Amazon (provided you avoid …
Read More »Questions About Cheap Gas, Insurance Deductibles, Baking Sheets, Financial Books and More
What’s inside? Here are the questions answered in today’s reader mailbag, boiled down to summaries of five or fewer words. Click on the number to jump straight down to the question.1. Back to work advice2. Going across town for gas3. Higher deductible a good idea?4. Evaluating Amazon Prime5. Is my …
Read More »Pair Books By Black Authors + Black-Owned Beauty
ITG loves a good unnecessary pairing—rom coms and treatments, masks and pasta dishes, cleansers and cookbooks—but today we’re flipping that concept on its head with some necessary reading, all by Black authors. No doubt you’ve seen the anti-racist reading lists circulating the internet, and while those mostly nonfiction works are …
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