Category: Career

Colleges Are Full of It

Colleges are full of it: Behind the three-decade scheme to raise tuition, bankrupt generations, and hypnotize the media

The price of a year at college has increased by more than 1,200 percent over the last 30 years, far outpacing any other price the government tracks: food, housing, cars, gasoline, TVs, you name it. Tuition has increased at a rate double that of medical care, usually considered the most expensive of human necessities. It has outstripped any reasonable expectation people might have had for investments over the period. And, as we all know, it has crushed a generation of college grads with debt. Today, thanks to those enormous tuition prices, young Americans routinely start adult life with a burden unknown to any previous cohort and whose ruinous effects we can only guess at. On the assumption that anyone in that generation still has a taste for irony, I…

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Colleges are full of it: Behind the three-decade scheme to raise tuition, bankrupt generations, and hypnotize the media

Fill the gaps in your toolkit with Skillswap

Nobody can do it all, no matter how broad your skill set is, it’s likely that at some point you’re going to take on a project where you need to bring in some help – somebody with the skills you lack. In this situation you can either pay to hire somebody with those skills, or, you can find somebody willing to do a skill-swap. For those of you unfamiliar with the concept of skill swapping, it’s based on the premise that you trade skills rather cash. For example, if I need somebody to help me with web development, in return I can offer to help them with a logo design. The concept of trading skills is by no means new but thanks to…

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Fill the gaps in your toolkit with Skillswap

Redesigning Mary Meeker’s Ugly Internet Slideshow

Each year Mary Meeker delivers a signature State of the Internet speech with deep and comprehensive insights into the emerging shape of the digital world. It’s fascinating, penetrating, brilliant – and a crime against good design. If it weren’t for Meeker’s sharp analysis, eyes would glaze at the PowerPoint-style visual dross. So we asked the presentation designer Emiland De Cubber – who famously redesigned the NSA’s confoundingly ugly PRISM PowerPoint that was leaked by Edward Snowden last year – to rework Meeker’s slides and make them easier on the eyes. The Paris-based designer kept the serious look and feel and stuck with the shade of grayish green favored by Meeker, a partner at the Silicon Valley venture capital firm of Kleiner Perkins …

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How to Spot Your Competitor’s Most Engaging Content

Content is a hot topic in the business world today. Indeed, content marketing, done correctly, can be a very effective way to attract and retain clients, but the problem is more and more companies produce more and more content. It’s highly important to understand how to produce content that will engage your target audience, but is also vital to know what your competitors’ most engaging content is. To figure this out you don’t have to spend ages collecting and analyzing all that content, you can do things way easier and efficiently if you use the proper tools. The Importance of Knowing Which Type of Content Works At the end of the day, your content needs to convert readers into buyers. In order to …

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How to Spot Your Competitor’s Most Engaging Content

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