By Joshua Kim. Each summer Mary Meeker releases her Internet Trends presentation. At the release of each report, I wonder if postsecondary education will be featured in the deck. And each summer I am sad that it is not. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. I don’t like long books. They take too long to read. The opportunity cost of one long book, in terms of books not read, is high. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. Social scientists in training (i.e. grad students) would not normally be assigned a book like Mukherjee’s The Gene. Not written by a social scientist. Written for a general audience. Not grounded in social sciences theoretical frameworks and methodologies. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. Have you been to the Mall of America (MOA) in Bloomington MN? This was my first visit to the MOA, and I’m trying to make sense of the place. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. I don’t think that I’m the first person to say that careers should be treated as experiments. This sounds like something that I stole from Wired Magazine or something - but I can’t find the source for the idea on Google. Read more...