Posts Tagged: Helping
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Who Donates Sperm?

"Sperm is a hot commodity in 21st-century Britain," writes Alice-Azania Jarvis in the Independent, which, go ahead, have a good laugh. HOT SPERM! It's the perfect SEO lead! While you're chuckling, let's also get these out of the way: the article mentions the "grey market" for sperm and also talks about "how the act of donation is rather opaque." Okay, got it all out of your system? Great.

Jarvis' piece uses Britain's sperm sparsity—you will recall that the situation is so dire that random sperm vigilantes are going out on their own to seek semen—to ask a larger question: What sort of man donates sperm? Well, the helping [...]

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The Malcolm Gladwell Digest: "The Sure Thing," Jan 18, 2010, the 'New Yorker'

Malcolm Gladwell. Subtitle: "How Entrepreneurs Really Succeed." Ted Turner "inherited the largest outdoor advertising firm in the South." "He could advertise his new station for free." "Within two years, the station was breaking even." "In a recent study." "The truly successful businessman… is a predator." "Wall Street thought that [John] Paulson was crazy." "But Paulson wasn't crazy at all." "'There's never been an opportunity like this,' Paulson gushed to a colleague, as he made one bet after another. By 'never' he meant never ever." "Paulson's story also casts a harsh light on the prevailing assumptions behind corporate compensation policies…. to turn executives into risk-takers." "Many entrepreneurs take plenty [...]