Half of America's top graduates do one of the same six jobs after graduation. Indeed, over half of the nation's best and brightest go to medical school, law school, or graduate school -- or they go into consulting, finance... or Teach for America (~2%), a program I'm not totally on-board with.
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After hearing it come up for the millionth time today in conversation, I finally read your letter. Plenty of people have rushed to defend you. Plenty more have said some ugly things to and about you.
I'm not here to say you're right or wrong. I know being an adult is super hard -- believe me! I know the Bay Area is extremely, stupidly expensive -- I live here, too, and I'm secretly afraid that someday, I won't be able to afford it anymore. Nevertheless, I'm going to go ahead and commit one of the biggest sins known to man: offering my unsolicited advice. Do what you want with it. Each Inch of Your Height is Worth $789 Per Year -- But There Is Hope For the Vertically Challenged.2/3/2016 This Is One of The Most Powerful Psychology Hacks Ever Invented, And It Only Takes a Few Minutes.1/26/2016
The Happy Talent's original purpose was to promote playfulness and leisure skill development, but I quickly realized that there are many other ways to improve your life. Hence These Specific Behaviors Will Make You More Charismatic - Starting RIGHT Now; The Best Productivity Hack in the WHOLE WORLD... Is This One; and Money DOES Buy Happiness - IF You Know How to Spend It.
But somehow, I have failed to discuss one of the best psychology hacks in the whole world -- until now.
Eric Lander, or, as I shall call him, Slanderous Lander, of the MIT BROad Institute, recently published The Heroes of CRISPR. This tacky piece of revisionist history is a blatant attempt to downplay the role of Jennifer Doudna and Emanuelle Charpentier in, um, discovering CRISPR genome editing.
For those who don’t know, CRISPR is THE hottest technology in biology right now. It’s being used to do everything from gene therapy to engineering mosquitoes that can eradicate malaria. It’s a simple way to cut and edit DNA (and, in a way, it’s surprisingly natural – bacteria have been using this exact enzyme to cut DNA for millions of years). To learn more, check out this RadioLab:
The future is now. Literally. It's 2015 -- the year that Marty McFly and Doc Brown famously visited in a time-traveling DeLorean. To celebrate one (err... three) of the best movies EVER made, I read We Don't Need Roads: The Making of the Back to the Future Trilogy by Caseen Gains. It was fascinating -- and I've either endlessly amused or endlessly annoyed my friends by continuously sharing my behind-the-scenes knowledge (and, obviously, pausing the movies every two minutes to explain something cool).
But it turns out, Gains' book wasn't just full of lessons about Back to the Future -- it was full of lessons about entrepreneurship, writing, and LIFE. I wanted to share a few of them with my readers. If I missed any, please share in the comments! ***
The Economist recently published The model minority is losing patience, which shared the story of Michael Wang:
MICHAEL WANG, a young Californian, came second in his class of 1,002 students; his ACT score was 36, the maximum possible; he sang at Barack Obama’s inauguration; he got third place in a national piano contest; he was in the top 150 of a national maths competition; he was in several national debating-competition finals. But when it came to his university application he faced a serious disappointment for the first time in his glittering career. He was rejected by six of the seven Ivy League colleges to which he applied. When the Goblet of Fire spat out Harry Potter's name, the Boy Who Lived knew he was in trouble. He was competing against people who were bigger, stronger and more experienced at magic than he was -- in situations that were literally life-or-death. On the eve of the first challenge -- the dragons -- Professor Moody gave Harry the best advice anyone's ever given anyone:
Olivia Fox Cabane, author of The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism, recently gave a talk at Stanford University. Admittedly, I was a little dubious about her whole "teaching charisma" thing... but her presentation had a great hook.
Have you read about my Patreon campaign yet? I wrote a little blurb about it last week. In it, I talk about the Old Economy Steve Jobs meme, and how, yeah, the "new economy" does suck in some ways. But wouldn't you rather see the world like this?
Some opportunities of the past have disappeared. You can't necessarily buy a house and get a great job out of school anymore. But the digital age has ushered in some of the most exciting new opportunities ever.
For the last few years, I've lived a very fun and adventure-filled life -- and I haven't held a full-time job since 2011. It is easier than ever to work remotely -- and the sharing economy has enabled people like me to make and save money in a way that is social, environmental, or just plain smart. In this post, I discuss eight companies I've used (or will use) to make my lifestyle possible. |
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