"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication," proclaimed an Apple Computer marketing brochure back in 1977. In the ensuing decades, Steve Jobs' commitment to this ideal resulted in technology products that were as beautiful as they were easy use, and in Apple becoming...

We have a client whose mother passed away at the beginning of the year. She was a beneficiary of her mother’s IRA, and we helped her move the inherited funds into a beneficiary IRA in her name. Because of her mother’s age, we asked if her mother took her full IRA...

In a 2009 essay that was very influential in business circles, Paul Graham of Y Combinator tried to figure out why workers at different levels of the same organization struggled to stay on the same meeting schedule. His conclusion was that you could break jobs down...