AKA “How I Found My Dream Job Without Really Looking” My oldest son, The Dude, came home from school one day, looking a little down. He plopped down on the couch, turned, looked at me, and, with a sad face said, “I don’t know what I want to be when I grow up.” I bust out laughing. The first thing I thought to say was, “Well, even...
We signed on with a new partner at work and they instantly needed photos of lots of our product – photos that we didn’t yet have. I tried to engage with a number of professional photographers, but our request and timeline was just not doable for any of them. I was coming up on a quick deadline, the product was in North Carolina, I was in Pittsburgh, PA, with no studio available, and there were no photographers available anywhere. Since I have a professional DSLR camera...
Recently, a group of researchers ran a field experiment. They sent the same, well-written letter to top professors across top universities in the US. The letters praised the professors and requested a meeting to learn more about them and their work. “They emailed more than 6,500 professors at the top 250 schools pretending to be the students. And they wrote letters saying, I really admire your work. Would you have some time to meet? The letters to the faculty were all identical, but the names of the students were all different....
