Why are Tall People so Successful in Business?
Arianne Cohen, author of The Tall Book (2009,) talking to the Wall Street Journal on the benefits and drawbacks to extreme height: There are numerous statistics documenting tall success–tall folks earn $789 more per inch per year, a figure that’s stayed steady for the past five decades in both the U.S. and U.K.–but no one […]
Rajan Datar’s Travel Survival Guide
Rajan Datar, the host of Fast Track, BBC World News’ flagship travel program, voyaged to over 50 nations on five continents in six years. His suggestions for travel, cultural appreciation, and survival: Suspend judgment on a new country until after your first night there Try to prepare for what you might want in the most […]
Create Device-Free Zones In Your Home
Hina Talib, an adolescent medicine specialist at Children’s Hospital at Montefiore, offers tips to help your household’s digital wellness practice: Eliminate phones from tables at mealtime and bedrooms overnight. (You might need to buy an alarm clock.) Try screen-free Saturday mornings or a daily “no-power” hour, and use that for family time instead. Challenge each […]
The Evolution of Tribalism
Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt in NYTimes.com, a selection from his book The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion (2012): We evolved to be tribal, and politics is a competition among coalitions of tribes. When people feel that a group they value—be it racial, religious, regional, or ideological—is under attack, they […]
The Window Tax and Tax Avoidance
From Wikipedia, Window tax was a property tax based on the number of windows in a house. It was a significant social, cultural, and architectural force in England, France, and Ireland during the 18th and 19th centuries. To avoid the tax some houses from the period can be seen to have bricked-up window-spaces (ready to […]
Boeing’s NMA2 in the Offing?
The Wall Street Journal reported that Boeing is planning a new large narrow-body aircraft to combat the A321. Ernest Arvai of the AirInsight consulting group remarks, With the MAX closing in on certification and a return to service, Boeing realizes that it needs a better competitor to the A321 than the MAX, which simply doesn’t […]
Hiring Experts Reveal Their Favorite Questions
Arianne Cohen of Bloomberg Businessweek magazine has top interviewers reveal the curveballs that distinguish job seekers from job getters: Who do you most admire and why? … “Reveals a lot about who the candidate is, who she aspires to be, and whether she has the DNA to be part of a company’s culture.” In your […]
Gustav Mahler and Alma Mahler
Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Brigid Schulte writes in The Guardian that the long stretches of time alone that creative geniuses—mostly men—afforded was facilitated by the dedicated women in their lives: Gustav Mahler married a promising young composer named Alma, then forbade her from composing, saying there could be only one in the family. Instead, she was […]
11 Best Hiking Spots in Europe
Lori Zaino of The Points Guy blog picks incredible European hiking vacations: Caminito del Rey, Málaga, Spain Samariá Gorge, Crete, Greece Paklenica National Park, Starigrad, Croatia Alpe Adria Trail, Italy, Austria, and Slovenia Rota Vicentina, Portugal Croaghaun Cliffs, Achill Island, Ireland Roque Nublo, Gran Canaria, Spain The Painters’ Way, Pirna, Germany Tour du Mont Blanc, […]
Anthony Trollope Inspired by His Mother Frances Milton Trollope
Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Brigid Schulte writes in The Guardian that the long stretches of time alone that creative geniuses—mostly men—afforded was facilitated by the dedicated women in their lives: Anthony Trollope, who famously wrote 2,000 words before 8am every morning, most likely learned the habit from his mother, who began writing at age 53 to […]