Sharing news and commentary about education, careers, investing, and life.

Sharing news and commentary about education, careers, investing, and life.
Showing posts with label Facebook. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Facebook. Show all posts

Thursday, July 26, 2007

CEO's on Facebook and Sticking To Your Convictions

Facebook side of today's post: I'm not so sure I agree with point 5 here. Though honestly the article she links to is more interesting than her 10 points.

Sticking To Your Convictions: Today is a great test for any of you investors out there - it's a chance where you see if your thesis sticks up and if, in fact, you have the conviction to double down. If you're a long term investor, a day like today is GREAT - if you're a trader who is long stocks, you're probably in a bad mood with the Dow down 300+ points!

P.S. I'm glad to see Sham posted one of my comments as a whole separate post (I was post #1). Maybe I should do that with the feedback I'm getting from Facebook/emails!

Friday, July 13, 2007

Linking Back: Teaching Happiness, Facebook, and Making Conversation

- I'm not sure how I missed this post about two weeks ago (actually, it's because I didn't know about the New Economist blog until just now) but the post is just great. G-R-E-A-T great. I'm not even going to summarize so that everyone clicks through to the post above.

- This should count as education because you can learn from the post so here are some tips on making conversation, from the candid Penelope Trunk.

- Are you tired of student loans?

- Hm, how can I get this to happen to the CK Tutors blog? :-)

- And it seems, as always, that Facebook is everywhere. But an IPO?

- And from Jay Mathews at the W Post, 10 steps to reduce application stress. I don't really agree, but it's my duty to provide links and so here is the link.

I'll be in Newport this weekend and in Atlanta through Wednesday, so posting will be spotty at best. As always, feel free to send an email, write in a comment here (or on Facebook), send an IM, etc. etc. Even though I'm not always available, I always respond to messages. Have a good weekend!

Monday, June 18, 2007

Using Statistics/Charts to Mislead (Not Good!)

Can anyone else find at least two major errors in this short essay from Education Sector? What I can't take away from them is that they have an interesting premise... but these sort of misleading errors get my juices flowing, especially when they include claims such as "charts you can trust" in the title.

In other news, Orion and I are set to announce a competition with a $50 prize - more on that "creative outsourcing" later.

A quick request - if you've been posting comments in Facebook (or even thinking about posting in Facebook) please post on this website as well so that people who don't have Facebook can get in on the discussion.