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    Brief: Tax efficiency, Apple acquisitions, India travel ban

    Sunday, May 2, 2021 3 short talking points Tax efficiency – A financial process (set of transactions) is said to be tax-efficient if it is taxed at a lower rate than an alternative financial process that achieves the same end. An example of tax efficiency is retirement investing using a 401(k) rather than a standard […] More

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    Brief: Stimulus, Epic vs Apple, Covid shot locations, Streaming gear, more

    Saturday, May 1, 2021 2 short talking points Should have received $1400 stimulus direct deposit last month from $1.9 trillion covid relief package. $600 in January. The stimulus checks are being given to boost the economy, they want people to spend. California appellate court ruled that Amazon is responsible for the safety of third-party products […] More

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    Gut instinct

    Gut instinct is based on your perception, worldview, and feeling. This makes it hard to argue against because it can’t be reasoned with. It is based on intuition, which is developed and refined through your experience and scientific expertise. More

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    What Is Tenure? | DiscoverPhDs

    What is Tenure? 

    Tenure is a permanent position awarded to professors showing excellence in research and teaching. Having tenure typically means you can only be dismissed for grave misconduct. This is why most see tenure as a job for life.

    If you’re hired to fill a tenure-line assistant professor position in the United States, the standard is that you’ll be reviewed for tenure and promotion to associate professor in the sixth year. If that succeeds, you’ll have tenure beginning in your seventh year.

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    What Is A Collective Bargaining Agreement?

    A collective bargaining agreement (CBA) is a written legal contract between an employer and a Union representing the employees. It is what levels the playing field between workers and management.

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    What is a Union Job?

    As a union worker, you are privy to more benefits than non-union workers. If you’re interested in being part of a union, learn more about them and how to apply.

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    What Is a Union?

    Unions are a democratically formed and controlled organization. It provides support and benefits to its members that might not otherwise be available to the individual employee.

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    Key learning strategies

    RETRIEVAL PRACTICE Reviewing what you’ve learned from memory, e.g., through recall, is more effective at instilling lasting ability than re-reading or reviewing notes. Using your memory to retrieve facts, concepts, events, or other ideas strengthens your ability to do so in the future, and “resets” the natural forgetting mechanism. ELABORATION Elaborating on material you have […] More

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    Comparing income from contracting to a yearly salary

    Comparing the hourly rate of a full-time contractor to a yearly salary can be like comparing apples and oranges. You can simplify the comparison by converting the hourly rate to an approx. yearly salary by doubling it and adding three 0’s. For example, $30/hour is approx. $60K/year. More

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    Dilbert: List of Characters

    More: CEO, Topper, Ted, Dilmom, Dadbert, The “Meeting Moth”, Carol Icon Name Description Status Alice Alice is the only female engineer at Path-E-Tech Management Corporation, and as such is very opposed to the feminist views of the company. Extant Asok The young, eager Indian intern Extant Bob and Dawn Bob and Dawn (and their son Rex) are dinosaurs who were discovered after Dilbert figured out that dinosaurs were not extinct, just hiding. Bob: Semi-regular Dawn: Extinct Catbert The evil…

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    What is a touchpoint?

    Touchpoint: Any point of contact or connection between two parties. Two people that have lived in the same city and went to the same college, even if at different times, have touchpoints in their past. More

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    To Know Thyself, Build a Database

    Make an inventory detailing your knowledge, work experience, skills, education, and accomplishments. This can then be distilled into your resume and cover letters and elaborated on in interviews. More

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    The power of story

    Writing down a concept, problem, or solution in story format with a beginning, middle, and end helps connect ideas together and aids learning and understanding. Summarizing the story in fewer and fewer words distills out the key points. More

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    Step up your PowerPoint engineering!

    50 Best PowerPoint Templates 2021: Creative, Corporate & More!

    The right template can make or break a presentation. Here’s a list of some of the best PowerPoint Templates you can choose from, to help you succeed in presenting anything from pitches to strategy.

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    How To Stay Super Motivated

    There are two elements needed to succeed in business. The first is a good strategy – making sure you’re heading in the right direction and focusing on the most valuable opportunities. The second is how well you do your work. You must perform with speed, positivity, efficiency and drive to achieve great […]

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    Education cartoon

    People are different, have different skills, personalities, experiences, characteristics, etc… but education doesn't adapt and is the same for everyone.#Education #EdTech pic.twitter.com/ey8LnjMq7Q — Growth Hackers 🚀 (@StartGrowthHack) July 2, 2020 More

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    How your brain is like a smartphone

    What is an app? An app, or software program, is a series of instructions and decisions designed to achieve a specific goal. There are different apps for different goals. Some examples of goals that an app can help you accomplish are: To get from point A to point B (navigation app) To communicate (chat app) […] More

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