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The Electric Car: How it will change commuting
General Motors this week revealed photos of their production plug-in hybrid car, the Chevrolet Volt. Containing both an electric engine and a smaller conventional gas-powered generator, the Volt, when...
View ArticleWired Magazine on Telecommuting
Drawing on our commuting theme from yesterday, the latest issue of Wired has a great article on telecommuting, a favourite topic of mine. I thought these stats were interesting: Last year, researchers...
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Is your business cool? Five small changes for a more Y-friendly workplace
ITWorldCanada.com has the scoop on a survey of 27,000 Canadian university students, the results of which are pretty interesting: The study found that two of the top five places to work were tech...
View ArticleThere’s a generational fire but no one has any idea where to get water
Playing with a new design for the site. Be patient as I put up all the new wallpaper. In the meantime, check out this little article from ZDnet: Businesses Struggle to Serve Gen Y. It’s a standard...
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Recession, All I Ever Wanted
So we’re in a recession now. Some more than others. Some are saying that things are so bad that there will be a depression. Others think that idea is just insane. There’s a lot of uncertainty, but no...
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What a Generation Can Do
You know, regardless of your political stripe or even if Obama fails as president, there’s a greater conclusion we can draw from the campaign that put this man in the white house. It was a...
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The economic downturn will mean doom for Gen Y, except for when it doesn’t
Weird editorial in the Financial Times UK today from Michael Skapinker, which is a neat name. He titles it A dose of austerity for a pampered generation, and is sort of all over the map. Look, he...
View ArticleSaving the economy by cutting the Christmas party
The Boston Globe has an article today about a man who plays Santa Claus every year. Apparently, due to the scary specter of recession (more on that here), companies have been cutting back on Christmas...
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Graduating this year? Three mistakes to avoid
Update: This post was featured on Brazen Careerist, where it got a bunch of really interesting comments. Check it out. There’s a recession all over the world. Which is nice, because I like it when we...
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‘There is no golden ticket’ and other scary ideas Generation Y must confront...
The Toronto Star’s front page was all about Generation Y this past Saturday with the playfully titled “Generation Why Me?” Basically, it’s about how everyone in their 20s is screwed. First, we meet...
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