krigath

College application essays for undergraduate degrees vary a lot by country.

The UK UCAS admission system used for all undergraduate admissions requires an application text. It is much freer in its form than how I understand the US system with a very specific prompt.

As for Norway, to pick another random example, there is no requirement to submit any piece of writing to explain your motivation. Your grades do all the talking for you, so to speak.

And can be hugely benefitical or detrimental.

Adam Grant writes about this topic in. Givers are overrepresented both among the most and among the least successful individuals. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16158498-give-and-take

In terms of population? Yes In terms of economic productivity per capita? No, not if you look at periods prior to the industrial revolution[1]

[1] https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/...

If your budget allows I'd recommend combining Kindle with Audible. This is what Amazon calls "Voicewhisper". I find that applying multiple senses helps keep distractions out. Also nice to use Kindle's highlighting which you can look through on Goodreads afterwards.

I find that this approach works really well for books on e.g. on design, architecture and management. Can be slightly more awkward for books with a lot of diagrams and code, but usually just a matter of pausing the audio over certain sections.

Depending on the difficulty of the language used I can often play on 1.7-2x playback speed.

The former NSA chief was criticised by Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald for setting the objective of "collect it all" (i.e. capturing all global communications) https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jul/15/crux-n...

Seven years later he is appointed to the board of directors at Amazon... and Amazon customers who ask to download their data get access to the full audio files from every recording done by their Alexa device https://twitter.com/AlinaUtrata/status/1485194962027388929