it might mean plesiosaurs or Permian synapsids or, for all I know, Miocene rodents. But don’t take an offer from a more prestigious institution just for the prestige: take on a research project that you actively want to do, and would do for the sheer fun ...
What you encounter is just the try to be nice. Does not work always. @ edited "b i t c h" is not allowed here Connie is on an iMAC right now and the colors are okay. Is an iMAC sRGB, as I assume or is it or not? On a different Windows sys...
Your colleagues can be extremely happy you’re on the team. Like Leigh Ann, the analytics architect, who had spent years measuring metrics that no one had been working on. And Rachel, from the Florida chapter, who got to show her boss results from our collaboration. It feels good When th...
While the India paper was slowly making its way through the layers of bureaucracy for (mostly skeptical) comment, Aklilu sent it directly to David Hopper at his home address. The next day a memo came from the Vice President’s office to me personally (an unprecedented event). It had one ...
gave people the benefit of the doubt and considered that some people might be having a reeeaally bad day/week/month/year… it’s possible that we may give a few undeserving people a break… but it’s even more possible that you saved a shattered person from even more pain and ...
What insurance should be is you pay a premium along with a lot of other people that goes into a kitty that will pay you should you encounter some catastrophic unforeseen event, but the insurance structure that they made was something to pay for everything: routine office visits, medications,...
This is like pulling down the statue of Saddam. Now you know wokeness is dead. … Nobody could have imagined that a vulgar, orange billionaire from New York and an anti-woke South African immigrant in Silicon Valley might be the champions Europe needs to find its own courage and Make Euro...
They might or might not have invented most trappings of modernity (so what, the Romans invented the computer. There’s more to invention than merely a single act of “I made this.” To pull humans into modernity there must be tolerance (yes, you heard that) even if no reward for the ...
Our final suggestion is to give all managers, especially those in the business divisions, a notional “bureaucracy whistle.” Like the famous and on cord, the emergency cable once strung above Toyota production lines that brought managers and engineers running to pinpoint...
This type of testing can be conducted quickly and cheaply with online panels of consumers. For example, testing a notice from the Internal Revenue Service (a current client of ours), a taxpayer might be asked how much they would pay in penalties and interest if they missed a deadline, reve...