Some days you're the fire hydrant, and some days you're the dog.
Both in the short-run and the long-run, college students, collectively, have enormous spending power.
It feels good to have people who support you and back you and believe in you.
One of the lasting consequences of the unrest of the late 1960s was the removal of adult authority from the lives of undergraduates at many colleges. And, as a consequence, residential communities developed much as students themselves wanted them to.
If Harvard officials ban the microfridge, it will leave undergraduates without any cooking appliances at all allowed in their rooms.
Insurance brokers make way too much money for the value they provide.
The only thing I learned is that failure sucks, and you never want to do it. There's not a lot to be said for that particular lesson.
I'm too old to understand Snapchat.
I'll grab coffee with my wife and daughter and then am in the office around 9 or 10. From there, I usually have about 8 hours of meetings.
When professors expect a few dozen students and hundreds show up, it's a mixed blessing. While it's a testament to their popularity, it also means they have to scramble to interview and hire more teaching fellows, schedule rooms, and order lab supplies.
Media organizations are frequently criticized for a heartless approach to the news. Stories that are damaging to a person's reputation make the front page just as quickly - and many would say even more quickly - as stories that enhance it.
Journalists play God when they decide for their readers when to hide information from them. Frequently, those choices are unavoidable.
At Wikinvest, which got renamed Sigfig, we were constantly just two or three months away from not being able to make payroll.
Rightly or wrongly, for better or worse, valuation is a very important tool for recruiting - particularly in the markets for software engineering, where the market is really tight.
I was spending all my time at the 'Crimson' - like, 70 hours a week - and I didn't go to class for, like, a year. I failed out of school. I had to leave Harvard, really, halfway through my tenure as the 'Crimson' managing editor. It was this incredibly humiliating and shocking experience.
There's a lot of just administrative work that comes along with having employees.
I'm not going to run my business on the basis of quarterly numbers.
The way we designed self-driving payroll, it ends payroll as an independent system that you're entering information in by hand.
There's nothing easy about building a company at all. I find it really hard, just painful and difficult, and if you are successful, it's even worse than if you fail.
A good headline is far more than a summary. It has to characterize, in a few brief words, the most important themes and news items of the article it accompanies.
