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My brain hurts

When you read profiles like this about the lives of social media influencers, it's clear that outside of the top 0.1% of creators (Kim K, etc.) the lifestyle is more like an Uber driver than a celebrity.

Set it up recently at the suggestion of a friend and it definitely makes things jump out less. If anything my macbook feels way brighter as a result. Curious if it also helps me reduce my iphone usage!

Still hilarious tho

Agreed. Apparently they didn't realize how many emails bounced (i.e. were fake) until way after acquisition

Charlie Javice, the 31-year-old start-up founder who JPMorgan Chase accused in a December lawsuit of lying to the bank as it prepared to acquire her company, is now facing criminal charges as well.

On Tuesday, the U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York charged her with wire, bank and securities fraud. It said that she “falsely and dramatically” exaggerated the number of customers that Frank, her now shuttered college financial planning company, actually had in a scheme to “fraudulently induce J.P. Morgan Chase to acquire” her start-up for $175 million.

JPMorgan had made similar accusations after acquiring Frank, which claimed to help millions of students and families more easily file for financial aid.

Ms. Javice, a Miami Beach resident, was arrested on Monday evening at Newark Airport in New Jersey.

Three of the charges she faces each carry a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison. A spokesman said that she denied the allegations. Her lawyer, Alex Spiro, declined to comment, as did JPMorgan.

"Share of businesses with workers on-site most of the time neared prepandemic levels in 2022, Labor Department finds

Some 72.5% of business establishments said their employees teleworked rarely or not at all last year, according to a Labor Department report released this week. That figure climbed from 60.1% in 2021. The survey showed about 21 million more workers on-site full time in 2022, compared with the prior year. An establishment is defined as each business location—such as an individual restaurant in a chain.

The new number is also close to the share of establishments—76.7%—that said they had no employees teleworking before the Covid-19 pandemic, and that were open in February 2020, the Labor Department said. Employers recently have begun pushing harder to get staff to work on-site more often, as recession fears prompt an increased emphasis on worker productivity."

When you look at the three year horizon for Amazon, all of the stock gains since the pandemic are gone. Their stock-heavy compensation plan means employees to receive 15% to 50% below projected pay targets: https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-corporate-workers-face-p...

Add in the recent layoffs... oof. What a double-whammy. Can't imagine this is good for morale.

Great question! The mentors get a lot of real experience and broaden their network in a way that directly improves their current jobs and future job prospects. So far, mentors use Merit to:

- Learn or improve their people skills by helping people with real problems and challenges - Diversify their own network beyond folks at their job and existing referrals - Learn about real people and problems beyond their own

Many of our mentors are senior individual contributors, who are interested in exploring management in a lightweight manner, or early managers who are looking to meet more folks and learn about more real-world scenarios. The experience of mentoring others directly helps them learn these skills and apply them to their real life.

Hopefully this answers your question!

Thanks for kind words - really appreciate it!

My co-founder @k3fernan and I made this because we believe that mentorship is the most effective way to build your network and career. Over 5,000 people have used Merit for nearly 10,000 mentorship hours.

I previously built a diversity recruiting platform and saw many people leave promising jobs and opportunities because they didn’t know where to go next and didn’t have the support system to help guide them.

We’ve seen people use Merit to navigate job searches, promotions, career switches, and learning skills. The mentors are using Merit to improve their own skills by teaching others, broaden and diversify their own network, and give back to tech at large.

Mentors choose specific topics and times to talk, which keeps conversations focused and easy to schedule. This blog post details the settings we’ve implemented to set up mentor calendars: https://blog.get-merit.com/simplify-mentorship-with-a-merit-...

I’ll be watching this thread for the next 24 hours to respond to any questions, comments, or feedback you may have.

Thank you!

Logan Ury is big on this kind of exercise: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/09/well/live/logan-ury-datin...

Woah! How would we apply this information practically?

This is cool! Measuring anything within the social sciences is hard but the act of trying to do so is, in my view, a worthy endeavor.

Is there a study showing countries with differences in life expectancies between countries with low or high alcohol consumption? Given that we've had prohibition in the US before and that couldn't have gone worst, I feel like the society-level considerations are very relevant here.

Very cool!

Very cool! Thanks for making this - every week I hear someone mention that they want to stop using Facebook or Google products. (Too invasive.) How do you see this being different than Eventbrite?

Full-Stack Developer | New York, NY | Onsite

Jopwell is diversifying the workforce by helping connect talented minorities with top-tier companies. We're looking for a programmer who is interested in working us as we build a platform that has the ability to reshape the recruitment landscape.

We're a small team right now, but what we've built so far has already created massive value for our companies and candidates. Whoever joins will participate in designing and implementing a number of services fundamental to helping connect highly qualified candidates with America's most sought after companies.

Please check out the job description here for more details: https://www.jopwell.com/careers

And if you're interested, please email me directly at randy@jopwell.com!

There are many talented individuals working across a range of industries, but the reality is that in industries where hiring is very referral-based, such as tech, these talented individuals would not know where to reach out in their networks to have access to the many promising tech opportunities. Our value add is to give these talented individuals access and exposure to opportunities that they did not have before.

I'm Randy, CTO of Jopwell. Thanks for the question! The problem is that companies are having trouble finding minorities with technical backgrounds. But they are there. We're trying to solve this by building a place where companies can find diverse individuals, and in turn, be able to consider a diverse pool of candidates when looking to hire.