Category: fun facts
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The sudden rise and modern irrelevance of the resume
Tedium always does a nice job of digging up the fun details about topics they cover. “Before the world of employment became obsessed with the résumé, we called them application letters.” | learn more
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Pornhub sued by deaf man over ADA compliance
He claimed the video he chose lacked close captioning. Do websites need to be compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act? Since websites weren’t considered when the law was drafted, it’s a very grey area that class action attorneys are […]
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Pink-collar workers
I heard this term for the first time this week, though it dates to the late 1970s. “A pink-collar worker refers to someone working in the care-oriented career field or in fields historically considered to be women’s work.” | learn more
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The day big oil was broken
I have mentioned the case of Standard Oil a few times in the past year when the topic of Amazon’s antitrust risks came up. Right after the U.S. government broke Standard Oil into 34 companies, the shareholders (Rockefeller the largest […]
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What’s happened to Equifax since the breach?
Imagine a business that’s built on selling proprietary data about consumers. Then imagine that business gets hacked and a bunch of that data gets leaked on the internet. You might imagine that customers would leave, consumer lawsuits would erode profits, […]
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Goldman Sachs just says ‘Vice President’ to be polite
“If everyone is a Vice President and Global Head of Something, is anyone really the global head of anything?” | learn more
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New evidence for theory of Stork baby delivery
A scientific paper with plenty of correlation suggesting storks really do deliver babies. | learn more
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My favorite LinkedIn profile
Roy Bahat, who runs VC fund Bloomberg Beta, seems like an awesome person. I recommend reading his profile in full. “I tried writing my LinkedIn to be honest to both my successes and the other stuff – so you can […]
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It’s hard to be a spy in the digital age
This is a fascinating article that discusses in great detail the challenges for the CIA of running spies in foreign countries as the internet, networked cameras and biometrics continue taking hold. I am troubled by the sources being entirely anonymous […]