November 2011
11 posts
Honey, I Shrunk the Congress!
I am in love with the the NYT (One-Page) Magazine:
You have to think that historians will probably look back on the 2011 Congressional “supercommittee” and wonder what on earth we were thinking. It’s as if the greatest minds in Washington said to themselves, Hmmm, if only there were some respected assemblage of lawmakers — representatives from both parties, perhaps — that could get together and...
The Science and Strategy of College Recruiting
Excerpted from here:
“When I arrived at [college] as an eager 18 year old, I had never even heard of consulting or I-banking. And to be honest, I still didn’t totally understand the function of a hedge fund. But what I do understand is that students here have passion. Passion for public service and education policy and painting and engineering and entrepreneurialism. Standing outside a...
