Jenna Schnuer

Fortune Well: What happens to your brain when you become a billionaire

Looking back on the last month in business news, there’s been a recurring theme: Billionaires Behaving Badly. No need to name names. Let’s just say that anybody who regularly spends time chatting up the world on Twitter or invests in crypto was tossed into the upside-down in November.

But is it the money that makes some ultra-wealthy types act out or would they have behaved the same way if they were regular folks with normal-person pocket change? 

 

Find out on Fortune.com.

American Way: Consider Your ChairApril 15, 2010

I went into the conversation expecting to rail against plastic bins and organizational systems. "It never works. None of it! I'm a pack rat and there is nothing to be done!" Instead, Mark Brunetz, author of Take the U Out of Clutter (Berkley Trade, $16) and cohost of the Style Network's deliciously schadenfreude-laden Clean House, disarmed me with one simple request: that I tell him about my chair. My chair?

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One+: Herd MentalityApril 1, 2010

You'll have to forgive Peter Miller if, when he looks at you and your co-workers, he sees a herd of caribou. Or if, as he watches people heading to a lunch buffet line, fish or chimpanzees come to mind. He's a nice guy. He, most likely, doesn’t think you look like a tuna (or, we assume, he would keep it to himself). And he's not, most certainly, thinking about your individual personality. 

Miller is the author of The Smart Swarm: How Understanding Flocks, Schools, and Colonies Can Make Us Better at Communicating, Decision Making, and Getting Things Done.

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American Way: Secret ServiceApril 15, 2007

Every Sunday, 43-year-old Frank Warren of Germantown, Maryland, sorts through hundreds of homemade postcards that complete strangers have mailed to him. He chooses about 20 and posts them on his website, PostSecret.com. Each contains one secret and usually some artwork. No name is attached. Some of the secrets are sweet or funny, but many of them are of the deep, dark variety that people dread, revealing everything from thoughts of suicide to admissions of marital infidelity.

Health: Destiny by DesignJan./Feb. 2007

Plan every detail? Or go with the flow? Doing a bit of both may help you make the best of your future.