The Chicago Tribune was asked this question in 1997. They received answers from “Goodyear’s high-paid engineers who design and develop tires and high-paid marketing professionals who devise ways to sell those tires.” | learn more
There’s a mechanical keyboard kit (not even a usable keyboard) that’s selling for $1,668. How did it get there? The Vickrey auction described here is quite interesting. | learn more
“In the span of a week, I had job offers to work as a software engineer at Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, LinkedIn, and Yelp. Here’s how I negotiated them.” | learn more
The data comes from “the O*NET database, containing hundreds of standardized and occupation-specific descriptors on almost 1,000 occupations covering the entire U.S. economy.” | learn more
Two researchers decided to find out. “As you might expect, religious people were willing to pay to be prayed for (more if it’s a priest, not a stranger). Rather more surprising, was the fact that the non-religious were willing to […]
This 2019 data helped slightly open my eyes to how the world is changing. The U.S. is #3 with 329mm people, a 0.60% growth rate and a median age of 38. The country ranked #7 has a population of 200mm, […]
The author found the original AIM creator and a handful of designers and developers to learn their stories. “It might have started out as something purely functional—a live out-of-office, if you will—but the away message was much more than that.” […]
“A dying Irishman went for one last big score in Nigeria. The project failed, but a London tribunal says his company’s owed $9 billion and counting.” | learn more
That’s pronounced Pot-8-Os. Yep. | learn more
If you work in healthcare, you’ve probably heard of the term capitate or capitated. For the rest of us… “As verbs the difference between decapitate and capitate is that decapitate is to remove the head of while capitate is to pay health-care […]