2024 Presidential Election Calendar: Primary, Caucus & Event Dates — Getcha popcorn ready!
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HEY Calendar - This alone is worth the price of admission!
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Yesterday
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The Misguided War on the SAT - The New York Times
“Standardized test scores are a much better predictor of academic success than high school grades,” Christina Paxson, the president of Brown University, recently wrote. Stuart Schmill — the dean of admissions at M.I.T., one of the few schools to have reinstated its test requirement — told me, “Just getting straight A’s is not enough information for us to know whether the students are going to succeed or not.”
An academic study released last summer by the group Opportunity Insights, covering the so-called Ivy Plus colleges (the eight in the Ivy League, along with Duke, M.I.T., Stanford and the University of Chicago), showed little relationship between high school grade point average and success in college. The researchers found a strong relationship between test scores and later success.
Likewise, a faculty committee at the University of California system — led by Dr. Henry Sánchez, a pathologist, and Eddie Comeaux, a professor of education — concluded in 2020 that test scores were better than high school grades at predicting student success in the system’s nine colleges, where more than 230,000 undergraduates are enrolled. The relative advantage of test scores has grown over time, the committee found.
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The Income Gap Jeopardizing Retirement for Millions - The New York Times
Fascinating read.
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You Can Buy Gold Bars at Costco. But Are They Worth It? - WSJ
Who know this was a thing?
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The SMALLEST to the LARGEST Thing in The Universe – The Ultimate Size Comparison - YouTube
Very deep. Makes you think.
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Every year for the last few years, I’ve started the year reading two essays by Merlin Mann.
First, care. and Better
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An Exhausting Year in (and Out of) the Office | The New Yorker
There are many ways to make things better. One possible first step would be for business owners to set new ground rules. For instance, they could declare that, from now on, e-mail should be used only for broadcasting information, and for sending questions that can be answered by a single reply. One implication of this system would be that any substantive back-and-forth discussion would need to happen live; to prevent an explosion of new meetings, managers could simultaneously introduce office hours, in which every employee adopts a set period each day during which they’d be available to chat in person, online, or over the phone, with no appointment needed. Discussions that seem likely to take fifteen minutes or less should be conducted during office hours, minimizing the number of intrusive meetings and freeing everyone from endless back-and-forth e-mail threads.
For those used to a culture of immediate responsiveness, the idea of having to wait to get an answer might seem radical—even unworkable. But people who have actually experimented with this approach have found that it can lead to a better allocation of time for everyone. “It turns out that waiting is no big deal most of the time,” the tech founders Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson explained, discussing their implementation of office hours at their software company, Basecamp. “The time and control regained by our experts is a huge deal.”
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Videos - The Deep Life by Cal Newport – The video of Cal Newport’s famed podcast
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