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Can Hiring One Person Have a “Collateral Benefit” for Dozens?

· Leave a Comment · In Altruism, Career Advice, Collaborating, Economics, Getting Help, Giving Help, Job Hunting, Mathematics, Networking, Philosophy

NSoW founder, Brooke Allen, asks his job candidates to help each other find work rather than compete for the one job he is trying to fill.

by: Brooke Allen

 

I am hiring a replacement for Adrienne, who is my assistant at my day job, and also editor of No Shortage of [...]

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Relentlessly Resourceful, Revolution, and Romance

· 1 Comment · In Career Advice, Entrepreneurship, Giving Help, Philosophy, Romance

by Brooke Allen

My good friend, Ray Schmitz, called me up last Wednesday and said he was ready to talk to people publicly about his business that was going to revolutionize real estate brokerage.

I was expecting him to ask me to invest but instead he told me the most romantic [...]

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Can You Imagine Being a Hero?

· 35 Comments · In Ethics, Giving Help, Interviews, Life Skills, Motivation, Psychology, Social Capital, Values

Learning to be a hero is more important than you might think.

Article by Brooke Allen, Interview by Adrienne Rodney and Brooke Allen.

Last summer we interviewed Dr. Phillip Zimbardo about his Heroic Imagination Project.

Before we met Dr. Phillip Zimbardo [...]

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