See Obama’s World Bank nominee rap and do the robot… VIDEO…

On Friday, President Obama announced his highly-anticipated nominee for president of the World Bank.

Dartmouth College president Dr. Jim Yong Kim is now poised to head up the international organization after its current president steps down on June 30. Kim, a McArthur Fellow, is a physician and professor as well as a champion for HIV/AIDS research. He has been president of the Ivy League school since 2009.

While Kim’s expertise on global [...]

I am sitting on a desk in one of the “bulge bracket” investment banks, and there is a lot of truth of “Wall Street jobs”.

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Much of the programming jobs are really just building systems to automate various processes. Its extremely detail oriented (IE tedious) as usually you are just a stop on the trading and clearing assembly line, and your system performs some task along the way.

The really stimulating intellectual jobs are now almost entirely classified as “quant” jobs. These are the math PHDs from ivy league schools. There is little room in [...]