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Was Graeber Right About “Bullshit Jobs” All Along?

In 2013, an anthropologist wrote an essay claiming 40% of jobs are pointless. The internet lost its mind. A decade later, the evidence suggests he[…]

What Do HR People Do All Day, Anyway?

The HR Dream vs. The HR Reality Let me tell you a story about Sarah. Sarah graduated with a degree in Psychology in 2018. She[…]

3 Types of Recruiters: The Psychology Behind Each Role

Disclaimer: This article contains generalizations that don’t apply to more than 99.9% of all people Wait—Who Even Becomes a Recruiter in the First Place? Before[…]

Haters Claim Green Day Puts “Suck” in Success…Are They Wrong?

When Green Day played the 2024 New Year’s Eve performance on Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve, changing the lyrics to “American Idiot” to “I’m not[…]

Sinbad Shazaam Mandela Effect Deboonked and Explained

Thousands of people insist they watched a 1990s movie called “Shazaam” starring comedian Sinbad as a genie. They remember specific plot details, the VHS box[…]

Who / What is Q*Bert? An Exhaustive Study

The Game (What We Think We Know) In 1982, an orange creature appeared in arcades across America. Q*bert—or, as the cabinet originally read during testing,[…]

L Ron Hubbard is More Interesting Than You and Xenu Agrees

How a sci-fi writer built a religion, sailed the high seas to escape the feds, stole a rocket scientist’s girlfriend, convinced Tom Cruise he’s right[…]