✳flâneur — a map of the web's best reading

Why is Finance Full of Jocks? (Plus: Useful Advice for People Who Think This is Stupid and Unfair) | by Byrne Hobart | Medium

byrnehobart.medium.com · 1,481 words · saved by 1 readers

When I was younger, I was outraged by how popular athletes are. It made perfect sense to me that the world valued stuff I’m good at, like…

Sports Finance Sociology Education Work Why is Finance Full of Jocks? (Plus: Useful Advice for People Who Think This is Stupid and Unfair) Byrne Hobart 6 min read · Nov 21, 2018 -- 1 Listen Share When I was younger, I was outraged by how popular athletes are. It made perfect sense to me that the world valued stuff I’m good at, like banging out five double-spaced pages on why literally any literary character is a Christlike figure, or getting a grade-inflation-adjusted Gentleman’s C on a math test. But it seemed completely inappropriate that people also thought highly of skills like running fas

Explore this link on the map →

related reading