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May 26

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May 24

bliptv: New conference room signs! These are getting installed today at our New York office. They’re the names of our favorite watering holes from our favorite TV shows. I can’t wait to hold a meeting in the Regal Beagle, or prank call someone while they’re working at Moe’s. Which one’s your favorite? (Yes we named the restroom next to the conference rooms too… didn’t want it to feel left out!) This makes me want to work at Bliptv

bliptv:

New conference room signs! These are getting installed today at our New York office. They’re the names of our favorite watering holes from our favorite TV shows. I can’t wait to hold a meeting in the Regal Beagle, or prank call someone while they’re working at Moe’s. Which one’s your favorite?

(Yes we named the restroom next to the conference rooms too… didn’t want it to feel left out!)


This makes me want to work at Bliptv

Wes Anderson Bingo

Wes Anderson Bingo

May 23

“Part of choosing David Ebersman,[Facebook CFO], was to ensure that the IPO would be pulled off in as low-key a way as was possible; it was one of Zuckerberg’s main tenets, especially in light of the disastrous Groupon IPO.” —

(via All Things D)

So much for that…..

theatlantic: For the First Time Ever, a Majority of the Unemployed Have Attended College Everybody is looking for the next big “bubble”. Maybe it’s bonds. Or tech stocks. Or … college? With tuition soaring and job prospects not, a growing chorus thinks higher education might just be too big not to fail. The calculus is simple. If college costs keep rising, but job prospects don’t improve, eventually higher education won’t be worth it. Pop goes the campus bubble — or so the story goes. That brings us to one of the more inauspicious recent headlines. For the first time ever, the majority of the unemployed have attended some college. Does this mark some kind of inflection point? Is it time to ditch the classroom for the office? Not exactly. […] The chart above isn’t a story about a college degree no longer paying off. The chart above is a story about more people going to college, but not nearly as many more people finishing college. Read more. [Image: IBD, via Business Insider]

theatlantic:

For the First Time Ever, a Majority of the Unemployed Have Attended College

Everybody is looking for the next big “bubble”. Maybe it’s bonds. Or tech stocks. Or … college? With tuition soaring and job prospects not, a growing chorus thinks higher education might just be too big not to fail. The calculus is simple. If college costs keep rising, but job prospects don’t improve, eventually higher education won’t be worth it. Pop goes the campus bubble — or so the story goes.

That brings us to one of the more inauspicious recent headlines. For the first time ever, the majority of the unemployed have attended some college. Does this mark some kind of inflection point? Is it time to ditch the classroom for the office? Not exactly. […]

The chart above isn’t a story about a college degree no longer paying off. The chart above is a story about more people going to college, but not nearly as many more people finishing college.

Read more. [Image: IBD, via Business Insider]

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May 21

world-shaker: Sometimes I feel old.

world-shaker:

Sometimes I feel old.

May 18

ShortFormBlog: "Ninjas" suddenly in extremely high demand by tech companies -

shortformblog:

» Also in demand: “Gurus,” “evangelists”: If…

Signs of A Bubble

My mother, who knows very little about /has little interest in tech or investing, just asked me if she should buy Facebook stock today.

May 17

The best TV shows you won't be watching this season -

Among the shows that the networks did not pick up are