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ALL LINKEDIN WITH NOWHERE TO GO ANN FRIEDMAN on the Escher staircase that is LINKEDIN The worst of the advice reads like management-speak Mad Libs . . . If the poor, as John Steinbeck once observed, see themselves as temporarily embarrassed millionaires, it seems fair to assume that on LinkedIn, followers see themselves as temporarily embarrassed thought leaders. READ MORE. |
I'M NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT YOUR ACADEMY
THOMAS FRANK on the collapse of the AMERICAN UNIVERSITY It is all so wonderfully circular, is it not? We know college degrees make us affluent because affluent people have college degrees; and we also know that we must spend lots of money on college - signing up for a lifetime of debt, essentially - because we believe status signifiers like college ought to be fantastically expensive. Think about it this way for long enough and you start to suspect that maybe those fancy stickers you put in your rear window are what education is all about, the distilled essence of the whole thing. READ MORE. |
