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• Bad news, you just got one year’s severance

  Sometimes bad news comes in the prettiest packages. One of the most common I see in the careers business is the generous severance payout. What seems like a gift from the highest graces too often turns out to be bad tidings in disguise. The “severance vacation” — that fool’s gold of “time off” that turns [...]

  Apr 2

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• New York City Mayor-to-be urges boycott of McDonald’s because… McDonald’s cause street violence?

  Tag this one with “local government” and “you’re doing it wrong”… If you’re an enterprising local politician, looking to step up to the Mayor’s sash, how to handle a neighborhood that’s rough enough for the local McDonald’s to regularly witness violence just outside — and sometimes inside — its doors?  Especially if you’ve discovered that [...]

  Mar 29

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• Frank Zappa on A/B testing the 1960s music industry

  Frank Zappa reveals that the 60s were actually… a grand time for A/B experiments in musical taste: Zappa’s point that willful ignorance and a decent humility enable creativity rings true.   The young know-it-alls “are more conservative and dangerous to the art form” than the cigar-chompers who possess an openness, curiosity, and nonchalance that comes from [...]

  Mar 27

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• NASA channels van Gogh: The Perpetual Ocean

  This is a gorgeous representation of the globe’s ocean currents via NASA, channeling their inner van Gogh: The model simulates surface flows for artistic purposes: “This visualization shows ocean surface currents around the world during the period from June 2005 through Decmeber 2007. The visualization does not include a narration or annotations; the goal was to use ocean [...]

  Mar 27

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• Why didn’t she hire you?

  Over the past month, I’ve “interviewed” the fictional hiring manager Betty Boss to give you an insight into what is actually happening on the other side of the interview table. First, she answered “why I didn’t hire you” in Parts One and Two; and then “why I did hire you” in Parts Three and Four. [...]

  Mar 26

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• Why I hired you, Part Two

  Over the past three weeks we’ve covered why you didn’t get the job, and what you can do about the reasons that are within your control. In this last week on this topic, we’ll address all of those things that are out of your control, and what to do about those. If I could put [...]

  Mar 26

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• Is a Reggie Jackson worth $56?

  For men of a certain age, a fantasy likely sprung into your little mind thirty, forty, or fifty years ago, that eventually, one day, your baseball card collection would be worth something. Shoeboxes were enlisted in the preservation effort and carefully stowed away under beds, in closets, up in attics, there to wait until some [...]

  Mar 23

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• Apple’s legal team has misplaced priorities: Ivy League teenagers are fair game, influential global liars are not

  Apple’s legal team has misplaced priorities. Apple’s infamous litigiousness elicits umbrage or admiration depending on the bystander, but all would concede its effectiveness.  Throughout the years, Apple has beaten critics in the courts, quashed rumors with legal complaints, and fostered a culture of secrecy that enables a sensational, spectacular product buzz unmatched in industry.  The casual [...]

  Mar 19

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• Why I hired you

  Over the past two weeks we’ve done an “interview” with the fictional character Betty Boss regarding all the reasons she didn’t hire you for the job. This week, I’d like to tell you what you can do about the things that are within your control. And next week, I’ll cover those that are out of [...]

  Mar 19

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• Googling “Social security disability” up 36% under Obama

  Googling “social security disability” is up 36% under Obama compared to the Bush years. Here’s the chart comparing monthly new Disability Insurance claims to Google searches on the phrase “social security disability”, using a three-month moving average: …and here’s the six-month moving average of the same… ………………………………………… Google data, indexed to relative market share of [...]

  Mar 16

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