Vikram examines the usefulness of grading employees on a rigid curve as practiced by General Electric and...
Not a Potted Plant
In the past, I've gotten what I can only call "Fake Insurance." Which is insurance with high...
It is New York Fashion Week, after all
Vikram brownsplains why people of color aren't much for getting back to nature.
The Alliance government in Joss Whedon's Firefly is the most plausible dystopic vision of government out there.
Vikram is dubious of one of the most frequently used methods applied by activist investors to increase...
In my business, I go to considerable efforts to make it as easy as possible for my...
Science: [S1] We’re apparently making monkeys dumber. [S2] Our kidney shortage hits the unemployed hardest. Writing: [W1]...
Steve Ballmer was not a great CEO, but neither was he an awful one.
It's USA cities this week -- what do these cities have in common?
Solutions to inequality do entail risk. Some of those risks are potentially tragic.
New Mexico's Supreme Court ruled today in favor of a plaintiff who sued for violation of one...
This week's links: Education, Medicine, Travel, Business, Government, Life, and World!
The US government is a big fat liar. Their pants are on fire, and it's your own...
My sex-ed in school was… not entirely honest. And not necessarily because of the right-wingers wanting to...
Soldiers hopefully come home from war. The brand-new documentary The November War shows how that process is...
If the government (federal government being what I had in mind) ran its own clinics, it could...
The Wall Street Journal reports that production of a low-cost iPhone has already started. But such facts...
These member nations of the UN have something in common. What?
Monster.com has a list of five questions that prospective employees should not ask during job interviews. They...
