Women's career cycles tend have a different shape than the traditional pattern, including ambition in their 20s, culture shock in their 30s, acceleration in their 40s and self-actualization in their 50s, writes business consultant Avivah Wittenberg-Cox. This career pattern is becoming the new normal with more parents balancing parenting responsibilities.

Employee skills and hunger to learn are more important to long-term business success than technology, advise Becky Frankiewicz and Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic. "Technical competence is temporary, but intellectual curiosity must be permanent," they write.

In addition to setting up their business, Arik Hanson says freelancers have big-picture items to consider before working for themselves. During the current crisis, more people are giving freelancing a try, so Hanson suggests looking for smaller projects, dedicating time to networking and working with nonprofits to build a portfolio.

As many companies slow hiring during the coronavirus pandemic and its economic fallout, it is the perfect time to tap mentorship as a way to foster growth among current employees, says Katherine Plumhoff of PowerToFly. Matching mentees and mentors, evaluating performance and setting expectations is a great way to improve the diversity of an organization's leadership.

If you are middle-aged and feel like you are dealing with stresses your parents never had to face, you are not alone, as a recent study found people aged 45 to 64 reported feeling 19% more stress in the 2010s than the same age group felt in the 1990s. Researchers say financial concerns and technological advances (like smartphones) might be to blame for increased levels of stress.

Thirsting for a way to assess how humans in ancient times quenched their thirst, archaeologists have developed a new method for detecting the presence of beer at sites where no other evidence of beer-drinking is found.