Exec coach / twins dad. Author, "Your Invisible Network: How to Create, Maintain and Leverage the Relationships That Will Transform Your Career" (April 2023)
@Cluffalo You should read (or re-read) Betty Friedan's "The Feminine Mystique," published in 1963. There was plenty of social contact in the 1950s and it did not save women from feeling desperate and empty.
@meghan_daum@TheUnspeakPod@esanzi .... And they would come of age during the post-war economic expansion of the 50s and 60s and the massive increase in university slots due to the GI bill.
@meghan_daum@TheUnspeakPod@esanzi In one of Malcolm Gladwell's books, he talks about how 1931 was the best year to be born in (my parents were both born in 1931). There were fewer babies due to the Depression, the women who taught them would become high income achievers ... (1/2)
@meghan_daum Weren't there various writers at the New Yorker who were on staff for decades who never really wrote anything? Or is that an urban legend?
@marcorubio What makes you happer, @marcorubio, babies and toddlers dying of HIV in Africa or babies and toddlers dying of HIV in south and southeast Asia?
@sirDukeDevin I'm not a fan of his, but a fair number of poor kids go to Yale, and to similar places. Ivy League schools with big endowments often give more financial aid and attracted poorer students than public places like UC Berkeley.