Gongol.com Archives: April 2014

Brian Gongol


April 14, 2014

Business and Finance "The corporate meritocrat has become a new class of aristocrat"
It's a problem for shareholders, who are basically getting extorted by executives. It's hard to imagine paying one person $13.9 million a year (per the "Equilar 100 CEO Pay Study" of the 100 highest-paid American CEOs of publicly-traded companies) and thinking you're getting more value than you would from the ideas and work of 70 people, each being paid a cool $200,000 each.

Computers and the Internet It's time to give serious thought to signing up for two-step verifications online


Aviation News How to super-pack: 10 days' worth into a carry-on
No surprise: A flight attendant knows best

Humor and Good News A statistical analysis of Bob Ross paintings
Totally unnecessary, but then there are those happy little clouds...

The United States of America That's not Omaha
Proving once again that we really are nothing more than "flyover country" to some people on the coasts, a CBS graphic shows Omaha where Kansas City...or Topeka, maybe?...should be

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