"Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
This is one of a few projects I am working on at the moment.
Connecting Rural Teenagers with High-Paying Jobs
Kevin Burke, Seva Mandir
The problem
The first step on the economic ladder for most citizens is a job requiring skills slightly more advanced than day labor. For rural villagers, the economic and personal returns on these jobs [...]
There’s a good essay in the Atlantic on what makes a great teacher. Teach for America recruits 4,000 new teachers out of college every year and keeps detailed data on which ones succeed and which don’t. This allows them to provide better instruction in the summer cram before they hit the classroom in the fall, [...]
Responding to Steven Pressfield’s blog writing lesson (“Rule #1: Nobody wants to read your shit”) Ben Casnocha notes:
In school anything you write or do will be read and graded by a teacher paid to do so. In the real world nobody wants to read your shit, and you have to earn their attention every single [...]
