The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.
I plant trees for a living, but Flat Earthers tell me they don't exist
Chinese government blocks Guardian website
Pennsylvania identity theft case trends - PA Courts: “Over the last five years, Pennsylvania has seen a gradual decrease in identity theft cases. Identity theft is defined as the fraudulent use of another person’s identifying information (social security number, bank account, birth certificate etc.). The infographic below highlights key data including defendant demographics, identity theft case counts and outcomes as well as county-level data where identity theft is most prevalent (also see editor’s note). A high-resolution file of the graphic is available for download here.”
The Sydney Morning Herald
Deloitte predicts that by 2030 the five greatest skills shortages will be customer service, organisation and time management, health, digital literacy and leadership.
"Business leaders will have to make active choices, and just buying skills won't be enough. They will have to adopt an investment frame of mind, and train them," Mr Harris said.
Take heart, workplace of the future will need a human touch
Ross Gittins
A new report disputes the notion that robots will take our jobs, and has some commonsense predictions about the future of work.
The path to prosperity: Why the future of work is human, the latest report in the firm's Building the Lucky Country series
MI5 accused of 'extraordinary and persistent illegality'
Photos of travellers to US hacked in data breach
The agency processes more than a million passengers and pedestrians crossing the US border on an average day, including more than 690,000 incoming travellers.
Alexandra Thornton & Galen Hendricks (Center for American Progress), Ending Special Tax Treatment for the Very Wealthy:
Over the past several decades, as concentrations of income and wealth have approached historic levels, taxes on the very wealthy have not kept up. In fact, taxes on the ultrarich have gone in the opposite direction. Tax changes enacted since the 1980s, including the recent Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) passed in December 2017, have eroded taxes on the people who have benefited the most from the economy, thereby aiding and abetting the widely acknowledged and troubling increase in wealth inequality. These changes have worsened a structural defect in the U.S. tax code—specifically, its failure to tax massive accumulations of wealth.
Silicon Valley has won big with a tax break aimed at small businesses.
Early investors and employees at Uber, Lyft, and other tech companies are getting a double reward this year: a wave of initial public offerings that puts billions of dollars in their pockets, and a quirk in the law that means some of that money will be tax-free.
Entrepreneurs, venture capital firms, and early startup employees are using the Qualified Small Business Stock, or QSBS, provision to partially or totally wipe out their tax bills. “It’s an awesome way to mitigate tax,” says Richard Scarpelli, head of financial planning at First Republic Private Wealth Management. Of all the strategies that investors and business owners use to lower capital-gains taxes, he says, “this is by far the best.”
“The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him," said Arthur Miller, who understood shame... Shameless MEdia Dragon Pretenders
John Rampton, via
LinkedIn.
Seven skills that a
tanked initiative can teach you, depending on you. The New York Times – Go with your instinct over the wisdom of the crowd. “…The 21st-century virtual shopping experience can feel overwhelming and chaotic, but it’s the price we pay for the convenience of shopping at home. That’s why stars are everywhere. Without them, you’re vulnerable to decision paralysis. But with them, you still can’t shake the feeling that there’s a lot of homework to do — hours of life lost, scrolling through reviews, many of which were written by people who have little to nothing in common with you. It is completely understandable why we want to trust these ratings. But with a little more knowledge, we can free ourselves from being trapped by them…”
New York Times op-ed: Should You Be Able to Disinherit Your Child?, by Pamela Druckerman:
At
lunchtime in France on Tuesday, all eyes were on a regional court near
Paris that was set to rule on Johnny Hallyday, the iconic rock ’n’ roll
singer who died in 2017.
The
court was merely announcing whether it had jurisdiction over Mr.
Hallyday’s estate or whether the case should be heard in California,
where Mr. Hallyday lived during many of his final years. But at stake
was a question that divides French and American law: Should you be
allowed to disinherit your own kids?