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.
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.
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
I used to think I couldn't read on a Kindle, but it removes all the distractions and feels more like a proper book. Especially coupled with an audio version I find that I can often finish books in 1-3 days where it would have taken me weeks in the past.
That being said I fully appreciate a good physical textbook for cases where there's a lot of diagrams, etc.
There's also the argument that business and technology is "the same thing" now. A majority of businesses cannot operate without technology. Technology often does not come to fruition without business.
The Brave browser (https://brave.com) has been doing this for a while. I'd recommend it. It's faster, saves bandwidth and blocks the majority of ads. Only downside is that I have to explicitly let my online bank see my location in order to log in.
> Unfortunately, it is now fashionable for medium-sized businesses to be over-run with project management types that hold everyone nose to the "deliverables" grindstone and enforce performance measures that are hostile to anyone who needs to pick up new skills on job and anyone that deigns to mentor colleagues (god forbid, they slip on a trite deliverable because they were cultivating the next generation of grindstone-licker).
Wow, I'm so glad that I am part of a company culture that values mentorship and teaching younger employees. Since joining in August last year I have spent a large proportion of my time both mentoring and pair programming.
Our team of 8 developers is fairly junior with 3 graduating last year and one this year. It's been great to see last year's graduates grow to become very independently productive members of the team, and I like to think that they would not have grown as much without my support and trust.
One of my startup ideas are to get a number of recent graduates to start private, for-profit schools for 12-18 year olds (or something). Initially, rich parents would pay for their kids to go there, and kids with exceptional entrepreneurial passion could get scholarships.
And, if students from these schools were shown to excel at creating valuable businesses later, this project could be used as an example for other schools elsewhere.
I'm a 4th year student at the University of St Andrews[1], Scotland. We were introduced to both refactoring and unit testing quite early, and there has been a strong emphasis on design decisions throughout.
I find that I can skim more easily with a few images that provide additional visual cues other than those of textual information. Pictures require a different visual focus, and might allow me to focus on the "bigger picture" (e.g. whether it is coming from WSJ), or "smaller picture" (i.e. more specific examples).
Additionally, I like that you can mix the sources together, with not too much of anything; instead emphasising a more holistic view.