Some practical stuff to consider (not prescriptions), some of which is more relevant in case of advanced disease, and some of which may save you time or headaches in the long run, and some of which will just seem trite and obvious:
1.Second opinion regarding treatment protocol (especially for second line treatment or beyond, where things tend to be a bit less settled)
2. Genetic testing that looks for treatable anomalies. (e.g., FoundationOne)
3. Disabled parking placard (if your country has this)
4. DNR. (Do not resucitate order)
5. Power of Attorney (for matters both medical and financial)
Treat anxiety/depression. (Remeron, for example, helps with anxiety, depression, sleep, and appetite)
6. Protect patient from misinformation
7. Prophylactic treatment of pain
8. Prophylactic treatment of nausea
9. Prophylactic treatment of constipation (stool softeners are not always enough)
10. Always request STAT orders from doctors (to reduce time spent waiting around for tests and for test results)
11. Grab rails/ support rails for bathroom/shower + shower chair + walker
12. If relevant: consider upgrading medical insurance during open enrollment period.
13. Will.
14. TV for bedroom.
15. Make sure bed is as comfortable as possible.
16. Write down questions for oncologist prior to appointment.
17. Protect patient as much as possible from idea that she is burden, from natural expressions of impatience or frustration, from arguments etc (since these can have medical implications in terms of willingness to endure necessary treatment)
18. Caretaker needs to be taken care of too.
18. Avoid delays in treatment as much as possible.
19. Vaccinate against flu and covid
Teachers consider the practice you describe (paying someone to spruce up an essay) cheating, but it's not clear that that is the kind of service that OP's site offers. Many teachers also encourage students to get critical feedback on their essays, and so they should. Many professional and academic writers seek out the same kind of feedback. I share your desire for the democratization of online education (that's the point of essayjudge) but there are so many sites that appeal to the baser instincts of struggling or just lazy students (selling pre-written or custom written essays) that I think any site that provides legitimate feedback to students, even if it's for a modest fee, should be welcomed.
Thanks for your kind words about http://www.essayjudge.com While it's true that our service is free, it does come at the cost of the publication of one's essay. I had several (<15) requests last semester for private essay reviews (which I did) for a fee (which I turned down). Since I'm reaching a relatively small number of students (<20k/month), there may still be a viable market for OP's service. Whether OP has the price point right, I don't know. I don't see how cost of advertising/teacher pay/etc. doesn't outstrip profit at $12/essay. Perhaps it could work if OP is an seo magician. In any case, I applaud jjets for not just creating another cheater site. I can share some experience and maybe stats with you (jjets) if you are interested; you can email me at bbquigley using google email.
This is a rare and wonderful eulogy. We can nitpick over the details of Fry's grasp of the Apple way, but today it is probably better just to appreciate what Fry gets right about the phenomenon of Steve Jobs. I think one thing he gets right, the thing in any case of most importance to me, is the attitude that Jobs brought to the things he did. The phrase "insanely great" has been knocking about in my brain as a kind of touchstone for that attitude since I first heard it used of the Mac in 84. I was a kid, but the phrase stuck with me, like the voice of conscience, becoming a constant challenge to do better. Beyond the macs and the pods and the phones and the pads, what I feel most grateful to Jobs for is the fact that he supplanted the old clarion cry "good is not good enough" with the much more powerful idea: "great is not great enough." There are other powerful ideas, including the antonymous "Just ship it!" Perhaps the challenge of living well and doing good is to somehow respond to the imperatives implied by both ideas. "Just ship it!" is a useful antidote for the procrastinating and hesitating conscience, but the romantic in me appreciates more the restraints placed on whatever forces lead us to accept mediocrity by having the ideal of the insanely great held before us the proper measure of human achievement.
>Honestly, should the consulting thing confuse or worry anyone?
I think the author did a pretty good job of explaining why she is worried, and while your two points are compelling, neither really addresses that explanation. You've got people who wanted to be artists, or public servants, or writers, or filmmakers, or non-profit workers, giving up their dreams for the sake of the security offered seductively by professional recruiters. That's a trade off for them, and perhaps liable to elicit a general shrug, but it's hardly a radical position to view so many making that trade off as potentially a loss for society or, say, humanity. Maybe the Shakespeares of this world always end up being Shakespeares. But maybe every once in a while they end up in finance or consultancy. I think it's fine that they have to freedom to do that. I think it's a shame that so much of the risk is on the side of "I'm going to be the next Shakespeare."
This is so rarely the case. At my firm the percentage of people in consulting who wanted to be artists, public servants, writers, or filmmakers is less than 10%. The way you've described it makes it sound like all these Yalie beatniks are selling out for the prospect of a stable paycheck.
Many of my colleagues weren't lifelong consultants, but they were lifelong businesspeople. The ones who left went on to start tech companies, open restaurants, work in VC, work for non-profits, etc.
Well, whatever their passions were, writing powerpoint decks in order to justify internal power moves at another company, because someone wanted something done so they hired you to provide post hoc rationalization for it.. I mean, really? This is what we're doing with "the best and the brightest"? Expert MS Office users?
Again: if so, this is a problem with the consulting market, not Yale. You're not going to change anything by pleading with Yale grads to turn down lots of money.
Much more interesting is the argument that consulting, though productive, takes advantage of college student's fear of risk in order to win out over riskier options which are actually in the students best interest. (I'm skeptical.) Then, indeed, it would be beneficial to talk to these students about the problem.
The Yale undergraduates who did get in would inevitably be influenced by the environment they're in.
Second point - I know of talented people who want to get out of PE/IB and join a startup but can never do it because of their regular paychecks and current levels of wealth.
The benefits/numbing comfort of a regular (and very large) pay check are extremely hard to leave, especially for a downgrade.
On the counter-side I know plenty of IB people who founded startups because their paychecks and level of wealth made it possible to commit several years of their lives to a startup.
I recognize that this is a soundbite version of recent history and tangential to the main point of the article, but just for the sake of contrarianism: Google is the company that pulled out of China in opposition to government-sponsored censorship; Amazon is the company that cut Wikileaks loose in response to government-requested censorship. There's more to judging a company's "interestingness" than its apparent antipathy to elitism.
It had nothing to do with 'government-sponsored censorship', in fact, google showed different results to Chinese nationals on the other side of the line and the rest of the world for specific queries for a long time.
The hacks were an attempt at surveillance, most likely from the government.
"These attacks and the surveillance they have uncovered--combined with the attempts over the past year to further limit free speech on the web--have led us to conclude that we should review the feasibility of our business operations in China."
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-china...
Google is the company that claimed to pull out of China and didn't until they got hacked. They're also the company that just pulled a particularly sneaky bait-n-switch on it's paying customer base. Amazon is no angel but neither is Google. They're both public for-profit companies and nothing else.
"They're both public for-profit companies and nothing else."
This is the only view, and the only thing approaching a value judgement, that can apply to a large (enough) company.
It's like befriending a wolf in the wild. It may lick your hand, and bark at danger, but it could easily take your hand off and no one would blame it for being true to its nature. In fact you'd be chastised for not treating it with the caution it demands.
1.Second opinion regarding treatment protocol (especially for second line treatment or beyond, where things tend to be a bit less settled) 2. Genetic testing that looks for treatable anomalies. (e.g., FoundationOne) 3. Disabled parking placard (if your country has this) 4. DNR. (Do not resucitate order) 5. Power of Attorney (for matters both medical and financial) Treat anxiety/depression. (Remeron, for example, helps with anxiety, depression, sleep, and appetite) 6. Protect patient from misinformation 7. Prophylactic treatment of pain 8. Prophylactic treatment of nausea 9. Prophylactic treatment of constipation (stool softeners are not always enough) 10. Always request STAT orders from doctors (to reduce time spent waiting around for tests and for test results) 11. Grab rails/ support rails for bathroom/shower + shower chair + walker 12. If relevant: consider upgrading medical insurance during open enrollment period. 13. Will. 14. TV for bedroom. 15. Make sure bed is as comfortable as possible. 16. Write down questions for oncologist prior to appointment. 17. Protect patient as much as possible from idea that she is burden, from natural expressions of impatience or frustration, from arguments etc (since these can have medical implications in terms of willingness to endure necessary treatment) 18. Caretaker needs to be taken care of too. 18. Avoid delays in treatment as much as possible. 19. Vaccinate against flu and covid