You Probably Won't Make it to the Top. David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH). m.signalvnoise.com . Nov 22, 2018. Fallacy: If you really set your mind to it, you can do it… That’s how I did it. I just wanted it more, worked hard, and eventually all my dreams came true. I won’t say it’s easy, but it’s up to you! Odds are overwhelmingly that you will not make it to the top....

On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs Capitalism is meant to eliminate bullshit jobs, yet layoffs tend to fall on people making, moving, fixing and maintaining things, but not on the salaried paper pushers that effectively work 15 hours a week. ​From a political standpoint, a happy productive population with free time on their hands is mortal to the ruling class. Moreover, work is considered a moral value in itself....

It’s hard to give pessimistic answers when ’s title says “Things Are Better Than You Think”… Educational Attainment Q1. In all low-income countries across the world today, how many girls finish primary school? There has been lots of efforts to get girls to finish primary school, e.g. providing sanitary towels. Surely, they must be at \( \ge 40% \) completion rates. 🔲 A: 20 percent ❌ B: 40 percent...

Looking for parallels should be done cautiously. For example, the advantaging associated with race may be different from the one associated with heterosexism. It’s also hard to disentangle [dis]advantaging where social class, economic class, race, religion, sexuality, ethnic identity, and other factors interact. Isn’t this the crux of intersectionality studies? Intersectionality identifies multiple factors of advantage and disadvantage. Factors include gender, caste, sex, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, religion, disability, weight, and physical appearance....

body { background-image: url('/img/fiction/bitter-root.jpg'); } Bitter Root. David F. Walker; Chuck Brown; Sanford Greene. imagecomics.com . www.hoopladigital.com . Snapshots [Dr. Sylvester] I am not the devil. It was the devil that made me what I have become, and the devil I am here to destroy. Look around you, Enoch Sangerye. You’ve seen this before – cities and towns burned to the ground. It always starts with their hate and fear....

body { background-image: url('/img/fiction/graveyard-book-2008.webp'); } The Graveyard Book. Neil Gaiman; P. Craig Russell. www.neilgaiman.com . www.hoopladigital.com . Accessed Oct 8, 2023. Snapshots The man Jack was tall. This man was taller. The man Jack wore dark clothes. This man’s clothes were darker. People who noticed the man Jack when he was about his business found themselves troubled. The man Jack looked up at the stranger, and it was the man Jack who was troubled....

body { background-image: url('/img/fiction/alien-bloodlines-2021.jpg'); } Snapshots GABRIEL. The dream always begins in the dark. You think you know what that means, but you don’t. You can’t. The dark I see is a truer shade than just the absence of light. You can’t find it just by clapping your hands over your eyes. Dark like this gets into you. Penetrates you. Tightens around your skull. Presses into your eye sockets until something pops and even the memory of light – even the belief in light – drains away....

body { background-image: url('/img/fiction/batman-one-bad-day-2022-2023.webp'); } Batman: One Bad Day. www.hoopladigital.com . dc.fandom.com . Snapshots BATMAN. Mr. Tierney, despite the rumors in the press, I am not omnipotent. I have an unfortunate weakness for mercy that has too often led to careless mistakes and lingering pain. However, the moment you fired that gun at me, I lost my taste for any… mercy. So, as you pull that trigger, know that the weapon is aimed at you....

body { background-image: url('/img/fiction/superman-space-age.jpg'); } Superman: Space Age. Mark Russell; Michael Allred; Laura Allred. 2022. What makes a Superman story in 2023? What can’t Superman beat? Nature? Disease? Societal Critique CLARK. Bored with how little they actually know, people tend to fill in the blanks with beliefs that make the world a more exciting place for them. What they lack in knowledge, they make up for with conviction....

Areas to Consider Capital Markets The Central Depository and Settlement Corporation (CDSC) runs the Central Depository System (CDS) that facilitates holding and trading of shares at the Nairobi Stock Exchange (NSE). A Central Depository Agent (CDA) is a Stockbroker, an Investment Bank, or a Custodian Bank, who has been authorized by the CDSC to open accounts in CDS on behalf of investors. In 2006, an Automatic Trading System was introduced so that orders are matched automatically and executed by stockbrokers on a first-come first-served basis....

MSFT offers an ESPP, in which employees can buy MSFT stock at a 10% discount. There is a cap to the number of shares per employee per year in that one can do at most 15% of one’s paycheck. Selling the ESPP stock within the same year seems unwise because of short-term capital gains tax. That said, holding them increases exposure to MSFT (if MSFT does poorly, that affects one’s bonuses, and sometimes livelihood)....

Exercise 1: Have a regular savings program. Start investing early because compound interest and time are you greatest resource. When it comes to setting saving accounts' interest rates with regard to the interest rate that banks enjoy from the fed , banks are downwards-flexible and upwards-sticky. Depositors lose the tune of $100b when interest rates are rising. One is better off with special accounts such as Marcus by Goldman Sachs (1....

East of West. Jonathan Hickman; Nick Dragotta. imagecomics.com . www.hoopladigital.com . imagecomics.fandom.com . 2013. body { background-image: url('/img/fiction/east-of-west.jpg'); } Snapshots The things that divide us are stronger than the things that unite us. Soon, the Union found itself fighting a war on two fronts – righteousness and tyranny, and the resulting quagmire suited their hypocrisy. Conflict drug on until finally reaching a protracted lull a decade later....

5 Asset Allocation Principles History shows that higher risk bears high reward From 1926 to 2017: Average Annual Return Year-to-Year Volatility of Returns Small-company stocks 12.1% 31.7% Large-company stocks 10.2% 19.8% Long-term government bonds 5.5% 9.9% US Treasury Bills 3.4% 3.1% The risk of investing in stocks and bonds depends on the hold duration From 1950 to 2017, the S&P averaged 10% per year....

body { background-image: url('/img/fiction/sandman-nightmare-country.webp'); } The Sandman Universe: Nightmare Country. James Tynion IV; Lisandro Estherren; Yanick Paquette; Andrea Sorrentino. www.dc.com . www.hoopladigital.com . sandman.fandom.com . 2022. Tynion IV won Eisner’s “Best Writer” award for 2023. Snapshots MR. ECSTASY. Dreams are a trap. They comfort and they coddle. They comfort and they coddle. They give false hope, and false understanding....

body { background-image: url('/img/fiction/gaiman-sandman.png'); } Path to comic: Lucifer (Netflix) -> Lucifer (Comic) -> The Sandman (Comic) Netflix is also adapting the comic, so interested in how it deviates from the source. Ser Brienne of Tarth will be Lucifer. Hype! Love Dream: Sister – you know how I felt for Nada one. What I feel for her still. But she defied me. I gave her due earning, and she still spurned me, so… Death: So you sentenced her to hell....

Stories of Your Life and Others. Ted Chiang. 2010. ISBN: 9781931520898 . Tower of Babylon Story focused on Hillalum, who lived during the construction of the Tower of Babel . notes that the Hebrew school version was more elaborate than the Old Testament account, e.g. the tower is so tall that it takes a year to climb, and when a man falls to his death, no one mourns, but when a brick is dropped, the brick-layers weep because it will take a year to replace....

body { background-image: url('/img/fiction/arca-2023.jpg'); } Arca. Van Jensen; Jesse Lonergan. 2023. Snapshots ARCA. Good morning, children. It is time to awaken. It is time to serve. Another day is here! A day to take joy in your work. Remember, the role of each settler is essential to the mission. Because there is only one way that we will reach Eden. And that is… CHILDREN....

body { background-image: url('/img/fiction/eternals-marvel.jpg'); } Eternals Vol. 3 (2006). Neil Gaiman; John Romita Jr.. www.marvel.com . www.hoopladigital.com . 2006. Eternals Vol. 5 (2021). Kieron Gillen; Esad Ribić. www.marvel.com . www.hoopladigital.com . marvel.fandom.com . Snapshots Origin of Life Mark Evanier: Can you prove that ancient civilizations weren’t visited by space travellers and heralded as gods? Did those aliens alight on this planet eons ago and plant the seeds of our civilization?...

LaGuardia. Nnedi Okorafor; Tana Ford; James Devlin. 2019. body { background-image: url('/img/fiction/okorafor-laguardia.jpg'); } Winner of the 2020 Hugo Award for Best Graphic Novel, and the 2020 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album - Reprint. Aliens exist (first landed in Nigeria); human-alien in the world. Main character: Future, a Nigerian-American doctor. Future sneaks in LetMeLive, an alien, into America to escape a genocide (largely imperceptible to humans) on LetMeLive’s kind....