Interesting Links for 10-04-2016
The ‘drugs v talking’ debate doesn’t help us understand mental health
(tags: mentalhealth therapy psychology drugs )
New findings about schizophrenia rekindle old questions about genes and identity.
(tags: schizophrenia genetics )
Police Body Cameras: What Do You See?
(tags: cameras police bias )
Hacking Elections: How Andrés Sepúlveda rigged
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"What Mr. Wu says he didn’t expect was the drudgery-the amount of trivial work that got passed on to entry-level bankers. One night, he says, after he had worked until 1 a.m. preparing a 60-page client book, his managing director told him to replace all the logos in the presentation because they appeared 'fuzzy.'"
You know what, Mr. Wu? If you pasted a low-resolution gif into a client presentation and it looked fuzzy, it doesn't matter what hour of the day or night you did it: your presentation looks crappy and you have to fix it and you don't get a gold star.
I speak as someone who has made that kind of mistake and fixed it without whining, because I knew my slides or document looked awful and it would make a bad impression.
ETA: And wearing headphones/earbuds so they can't hear the boss giving them instructions on the trading floor? Why do these people have jobs at all? Why are they being hired? The correct response to this is not "find out what they're listening to and relate to those hip kids," it's "ban earbuds because their coworkers have to communicate with them."
None of the juniors interviewed sound ready to manage other people's money or make deals. I look forward to the fast-coming algorithm revolution that will flush most of them from the industry. A lot of the problem here seems to be that the banking industry is egotistically hiring these entitled overqualified (yes) prats who have not had to really grind at anything, because they look good (read: look like upper management). They should be looking in the solid- to high-achieving middle and rising-lower-middle class graduates from public universities. That's where they'll get their hard workers who are willing to play company games and learn the ropes.
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