Mitchell Tsai

In modern times Timbuktu has become a synonym for a remote place. But the city thrived for centuries at the crossroads of the region’s two great highways: the caravan route across the Sahara passed right by its narrow warren of streets, bringing salt, spices and cloth from the north, and the Niger River brought gold and slaves from West Africa. - Mitchell Tsai

Traders brought books, and the city’s scribes earned their living by copying them out by hand. These manuscripts cover a vast range of human knowledge — Islamic philosophy and law, of course, but medicine, botany and astronomy as well. - Mitchell Tsai

C-suite leaders who demonstrate integrity also are the ones who perform particularly well, but a few rungs down the corporate ladder, a staffer’s level of integrity has little correlation with performance. - Mitchell Tsai

While integrity topped the list for high-level executives, for middle managers it came behind social intelligence as a predictor of good performance. - Mitchell Tsai

That’s likely because middle managers spend more time navigating both subordinates and their own bosses, and so need to be particularly adept at reading social cues and managing office politics — even more than they need to pay attention to their perceived ethical acumen. That could signal risks for companies where middle managers are moving up the ranks.. Since integrity has little bearing on performance at lower levels of management, someone who’s promoted based on performance may be caught unprepared once they reach the top ranks. - Mitchell Tsai

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Expenses are a mess due to (1) rise in university expenses due to status wars with other universities (2) drop in state funding. http://budget.universityofcalifornia.edu/... UC Budget was $20.1 billion in 2009-10. The state’s per-student funding for UC education has fallen 54 percent since 1990. In 1990, the state contributed $16,430 per student, or 78 percent of the total cost of education. By 2009-10, that figure had fallen to $7,570 per student, or 48 percent of the total cost. (Figures for both years are inflation adjusted). - Mitchell Tsai

Stanford University’s entire research budget for 1935, funded wholly by the President’s office, was $5,000. Research budgets multiplied tenfold in subsequent years, and then multiplied tenfold again - Mitchell Tsai

Typical player is likely to be a woman most motivated either by the excitement that comes with winning a prize, or the opportunity to kill time, reduce boredom and get out of the house. - Mitchell Tsai

Men and women were motivated to play for different reasons, according to the study. Women tended to be utilitarian and excitement gamblers, while men tended to be multipurpose and relaxation gamblers. - Mitchell Tsai

That's sickening. UC and Cal State systems need a major overhaul. - Spidra Webster

...blast from the past... http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/senate... The Master Plan noted that “expenditures for higher education have more than tripled during the decade 1948-49 through 1957-58,” and its authors were concerned about the public cost of a high-quality higher education system. .. - Mitchell Tsai

Jen: (Daughter of working-class parents) I've had a lot of time to observe just how different the upper-middle, white-collar class is from you and me. ... I was watching some 17-, 18-year-old boy on his cell phone while his parents helped him move in, and the oh so casual way he told his friend, "Yeah. I'm here at [name of college]" like he had just been dropped off at the corner drugstore and it was no big deal or trauma or culture shock for him... how different his attitude was from my own slightly overwhelmed one when I was at my first day of college. - Mitchell Tsai

And i think he's exactly right. If one thing had fallen through for me--a misunderstood form, a sick family member, no available part-time work, etc.--i could just as easily have ended up in debt and without a degree. The sheer number of balls lower-income students have to juggle are daunting. - Mitchell Tsai

Includes the older FORTRAN ones http://www.gnu.org/fun... - Mitchell Tsai

"Hello World" in 100s of computer languages http://roesler-ac.de/wolfram... - Mitchell Tsai

Good news. Now all we have to do is to build a ship which can arrive there in less than three months. - samet