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I love articles like this. Short, concise, and filled with interesting and unique tips instead of the usual cliche dribble. I particularly loved the outlining of Zack's methods.

It's easy enough to find high-potential people. The problem is how long they'll stay. If they stay for a couple of years, great, I'll take it. But anything less than that, and you're probably not recuperating the cost of hiring and training them. And the training cost can be extremely high if it involves the time of more experienced employees.

The article mentions MBAs graduating from top schools not being able to find a job in a tough job market, but obviously this problem is as old as time for MBA graduating any given year. One of the issues is that the MBA is a money maker for these universities, so why not graduate as many people as possible.

The other issue is what people expect from these MBA programs. They see it as a way to get career flexibility, but in reality an MBA really opens up two spaces: Consulting, and becoming an executive in the field you're already poised to become an executive in.

Anyone else a bit skeptical?

You win. Wow.

Oh god that's a depressing statement and implication.

How We Changed Toronto: The inside story of twelve creative, tumultuous years in civic life, 1969-1980

Accidental City: The Transformation of Toronto

Unbuilt Toronto: A History of the City That Might Have Been

haha, how do you add more than 30 tags to an instagram post

that's some nifty work

Maybe not, you never know... But you're probably right.

Haha, that's amazing. Simple but effective, and not a bad cause either.

This is gonna be a weak comment because I can't find references, but whatever.

I remember listening to a podcast recently that compared boys and girls in school. The takeaway was that girls generally try to do all of the work, whereas boys were far more likely to take short cuts to success. And this was the reason why boys were doing better in university and afterwards. The conclusion of the podcast was that we should be encouraging girls to try to take the same shortcuts as boys. It's a learned skill to know exactly what needs to be done to get what you want.

Maybe that's what's going on here. Rules, whether we like it or not, can be broken.

If you think racoons are cool, you're definitely not from Toronto.

I can't believe people like you exist. Just a handful of amazing projects

That's really sweet. I think I remember a scene from the TV show Normal People where something similar happens.

Would this be like an app on your phone, or something else?

Yes Anki. I've also written my own code to convert markdown and yaml files into anki cards. So amazing.

I'm always impressed by hardware hacks.

Definitely counts. Very cool.

The HP-25 was a hand-held programmable scientific/engineering calculator made by Hewlett-Packard between early January 1975 and 1978.

Wirelessly charged battery pack. Whhhhhatttttt

What's the use case for this?

Awesome! I hope you make this public one day.

wicked, I love these display projects

I'm guessing this wasn't literally a shortcut

Where does one get musicXML files from usually?

So you're the party apartment!

Be nice to hook that up to some kind of watering system to always have the perfect moisture.

If you build for yourself, you never lose.

It's the little things in life.

I think all of Canada would be interested.