From reader Jennifer Gerlach:
1. No more paper cuts
2. Hard to convey charisma in 12 point Times Roman
3. Two pages not long enough for both valedictory speech and Who’s Who entry
4. No need to spell-check portfolio videos
5. Digital portfolio pictures could save many a rain forest
6. You might actually land a job because a resume
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A reader who knows more about accounting than you do had this to say about my intimation Tuesday that stock-option backdating was a nearly victimless crime:
Nobody got hurt? I’m not so sure. If these companies had been accounting for the compensation they were paying these guys, earnings would have looked a lot different. I can’t believe
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When I wrote my post earlier today about stock-option backdating, I hadn’t gotten as far as the editorial page of today’s WSJ, where Holman Jenkins weighs in ($) on the subject yet again.
His main point is that the whole backdating mess (uncovered initially by University of Iowa professor Erik Lie and then kept in the headlines mainly …
Last week I cited from memory what I thought was a story in William Greider‘s 1992 book Who Will Tell the People about newspapers and their security guards. The point was that in the old days any old nut off the street could walk in and harangue the reporters, while now he’d be stopped at the door. Anyway, I went home and looked through …
The thing about working at TIME is that some days you find yourself chatting over coffee about foreign policy; other days, you find yourself chatting over coffee with the people who make the policy.
That’s what happened late last month, when a senior adviser to Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe trooped into our conference room with his …
A while back, I wrote that the prevalence of stock-option backdating could be explained in part by the fact that hardly anybody took the accounting rules governing stock options seriously:
When supposed wrongdoing is this widespread, one can’t help but wonder: Are there really this many willful rule-breakers in corporate America, or did
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When I posted the photo of people lining up for Powerball Mega Millions tickets in New York, I did it mainly out of guilt that I hadn’t posted anything yet today. But I learned a few minutes later, from Joel Slemrod of the University of Michigan, that it was highly relevant.
The relevance is that lottery winners have been increasingly …
1. It’s so much cooler than ink on paper.
2. It’s multimedia.
3. The format engenders creativity.
4. Young people don’t write; they text. And design. And code. And video.
5. More jobs in this creativity-driven economy will call for the kinds of skills best showcased interactively.
6. Wha?
7. Just shut up and watch this YouTube …
At 1:45 p.m. today.
And no, I am not a professional photographer. What tipped you off?
I’m telling you, this vidumé thing (thanks again, Gerry) is catching on. I just got this notice:
Workers across the country are competing to live out a dream job for a day at Disneyland and America votes on who makes the cut.
From March 6 to March 30th, the public can go to http://www.careerbuilder.com/disneydreamjobs and vote for their
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Economist Jamie Galbraith has a cool little piece in the current issue of Mother Jones (link via Brad DeLong) about income inequality not between individuals but between counties.
Galbraith ends up using county income data to make pretty much the same point as I did in my column a few weeks ago: That the counties around Washington, …
Ph.D.s get a bad rap. Whenever the economy’s raging and Wall Street/Silicon Valley/stay-at-home blogger types are dragging in buckets of cash, those eternal students with their carefully collected knowledge of 15th century French love poetry get slathered with the sniggers.
Eternal students (and your parents), rejoice. Your time has …
