More random links
- In Pursuit of Nissan, a Jobs Lesson for the Tech Industry?
- Why Tennessee? "It was far from Detroit and the United Auto Workers — and the Japanese wanted to work without what they saw as union interference." Add to this workers in the overseas workshops being willing to put up with harder working conditions and I'm a bit doubtful about tech manufacturing in the US as a big source of jobs. (If robots replace workers, though, repatriation of manufacturing to the US might be more likely). See also the related Room for Debate piece.
- Mississippi church apologizes for refusing to let black couple marry
- One indicator that this may primarily be a face-saving exercise rather than a genuine apology: "the couple said Monday they knew nothing of the apology until a reporter called"
- The poem that won Olympic gold
- "For some decades, literature was actually an Olympic medal event." More here.
- I Won't Hire People Who Use Poor Grammar. Here's Why.
- I don't think that the article highlights as much as it should the fact that both the author's companies are focused upon writing documentation. Still, I think that being able to write properly is generally a good sign of a few other things as the author also asserts.