by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Aug 1, 2017
Mike Rowe, the television personality best known for hosting Discovery Channel’s Dirty Jobs and Deadliest Catch, recently called attention to a serious problem facing blue-collar and white-collar job candidates: the decline in soft skills. When Fox News host Tucker...
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Jul 31, 2017
I recently spoke to two highly-compensated software engineers in Silicon Valley who do not have as much coding experience as many of their peers. Yet, they’ve landed jobs and have received promotions over their more experienced counterparts. In both cases they have a...
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Jul 28, 2017
On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first man to step foot on the moon. Nineteen minutes later, Buzz Aldrin joined him. Aldrin was wearing an Omega Speedmaster wristwatch. Since then, the watch has been known simply as the Moonwatch. Every July, Omega takes...
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Jul 27, 2017
On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first man to step foot on the moon. Nineteen minutes later, Buzz Aldrin joined him. Aldrin was wearing an Omega Speedmaster wristwatch. Since then, the watch has been known simply as the Moonwatch. Every July, Omega takes...
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Jul 5, 2017
Thomas Jefferson would have been comfortable on Twitter. He would have been really good at writing short, provocative tweets that make people think differently. Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence is the most persuasive document in American history. Its...
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Jul 4, 2017
Alan Alda is a seven-time Emmy Award winner best known for playing Hawkeye Pierce in the classic television show, M*A*S*H. Alda’s interest in science led him to host the award-winning PBS series Scientific American Frontiers. Eleven years of interviewing scientists on...
