James Whittaker recommends trying to get a job offer every year, just to make sure you can. It’s an extremely liberating feeling knowing that even if you lose your job you’ll be able to find another one quickly. That’s a huge stress off your back. I haven’t been very good about this myself, but every once in a while I’ll accept an invitation from a recruiter (it helps to set up your LinkedIn account). I don’t bother doing any prep for these interviews, at least not initially. Those interviews show me the areas I need to brush up on or where the industry practices are changing.
Signals about multiple facets of the economy are aggregated to infer a timely picture of the macro economy. The algorithm extracts and compiles information about consumption (e.g. from searches for vehicles or households appliances), labour markets (e.g. searches for unemployment benefits), housing (e.g. searches for real estate agencies or mortgages), business services (e.g. searches for ‘venture capital or bankruptcy), industrial activity (e.g. searches for maritime transport or agricultural equipment), trade (e.g. searches for exports or freight) as well as economic sentiment (e.g. searches for recession) and poverty (e.g. searches for food banks).
Stalking Your Daughter’s Killers
On the bridge, she scoured the vendors for flower carts, but that day he was selling sunglasses instead. When she finally found him, she got too excited, and too close. He recognized her and ran. He sprinted along the narrow pedestrian pass, hoping to get away. Mrs. Rodríguez, 56 at the time, grabbed him by the shirt and wrestled him to the rails. She jammed her handgun into his back. “If you move, I’ll shoot you,” she told him, according to family members involved in her scramble to capture the florist that day. She held him there for nearly an hour, awaiting the police to make the arrest. In three years, Mrs. Rodríguez captured nearly every living member of the crew that had abducted her daughter for ransom, a rogues’ gallery of criminals who tried to start new lives — as a born-again Christian, a taxi driver, a car salesman, a babysitter.
These days, capitalism’s advocates often focus more on defending the status quo than on promoting outsider opportunity. If capitalism is to win over the young, that must change—and a new freedom agenda can help make that happen. In January 1941, Franklin Roosevelt announced his four freedoms (of speech and worship, from want and fear) that helped frame his objectives for World War II, which the nation would enter before the end of that year. Our contemporary outsiders would benefit from a renewal of four key freedoms: to build, to work, to sell, and to learn. The young need fewer land-use restrictions that make it tough to provide affordable housing in productive areas. They need fewer employment rules that limit their ability to find work, as well as fewer business regulations that suppress entrepreneurial energies. And—even before these other important things—they need new educational options that liberate them from underperforming educational monopolies.
Tolkien and Lewis were in this way able to preserve a dedicated literary space for the magical medievalisms that they valued so highly, even if it didn’t catch on in the ivory tower or adult literary fiction as they’d hoped it would. The Oxford English curriculum seems to have worked most effectively, in that respect, as a training ground for future children’s fantasy writers who carried Tolkien and Lewis’s mission forward in a variety of ways. Indeed, all four of the second-generation Oxford School authors have addressed the role that their fairy-touched undergraduate educations had on their careers: in a talk given in 1997, Jones called the medieval literature she read at Oxford what ‘inspired’ her writing, especially ‘the way writers from the Middle Ages handled narratives. They were all so different, that was the amazing thing, and all so good at it.’