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I found a number of sources online that disagree with you. https://www.quora.com/Escape-velocity-is-supposed-to-be-24-0... Multiple answers explain that there isn't a fixed minimum…

I don't think popular culture is on your side. Even Time Magazine's biography of him describes him as aloof: http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,993017,...

I would gladly accept all those issues over working in an open floorplan any day of the week. I'd prefer private offices to remote distributed work. But I find it's actually easier…

Heart surgeon? No. But lawyer? Yes. Chemical engineer? Yes. Physician? Yes (private family practice is a dying art in the US). Movie star? Yes. Very few career paths offer absolute…

Rule #1 for anybody who only cares about their bonus: don't anger the person who decides your bonus.

Based on my friends' experiences, you often have to fight tooth and nail to actually get overtime at some retail or fast food places. In other words, simply working more is not alw…

Just from playing around with it and reading the TC article, I think the title of the home page (as in, the title that is put in your web browser's title) is a good description: "P…

It's amazing how many companies have tried to pull this little accounting trick, or variations of it. Most of them have failed or else fallen from glory.

That may be true, but students at top schools still tend to come from more affluent backgrounds. Yes, there are "homeless to Harvard" stories out there, but generally speaking Harv…

I don't think that quote is really relevant to any of this. This isn't about cutting off entire sources of information. Nobody is saying that it's not right for a person to use a s…