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Never say “no,” but rarely say “yes.”
An old lesson: rather than rejecting work you don’t want, price it so ridiculously high that you’ll celebrate if you get it. ~ learn more
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Estimating individual guidance counselors’ effects on educational attainment.
“Counselors vary substantially in their effectiveness at increasing high school graduation and college attendance, selectivity, and persistence. Counselor effects on educational attainment are similar in magnitude to teacher effects, but they flow through improved information and assistance more than cognitive […]
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The guy who inspired “quiet quitting” is back to working 50 hours a week.
The guy who inspired “quiet quitting” is back to working 50 hours a week. “In March, [the reporter] profiled a recruiter, using the pseudonym Justin, who slowly cut back the hours he devoted to his job without much consequence. … In […]
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How do big creators think about Web3?
Ezra Cooperstein leads Night Media, a talent manager for internet creators like Mr. Beast and a bunch of other probably popular people I’ve never heard of. “I bet some of you have been thinking, ‘wow, I’m hearing a lot about […]
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Someone stole this a woman’s crane.
It’s not just carjackings Chicagoans have to worry about! “We had the keys in our pocket — somebody had to hotwire it, had a flatbed and took it with them.” | learn more
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Natural gas is a fuel of the future.
An incredibly detailed write-up from Austin Vernon. “Inertia and new technology make it hard and undesirable to root out.” | learn more
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More than you want to know about gift cards.
“There was once a Reddit comment from an extremely frustrated retail clerk wondering why people in the neighborhood made him spend so much time counting out refunds of $500 gift cards.” | learn more
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Illinois cannabis licenses delayed, blaming Covid
But not so fast… “As of last August, Illinois craft grow, infusion, and transport license applications had gone through two rounds of discrepancy vetting in the scoring process managed by accounting firm KPMG. Four months later, the state Attorney General […]