It’s the art of constructive feedback: If you’re a teacher with a mountain of papers to grade, you may find yourself puzzling over which kinds of notes in the margins work best. Martha and Grant discuss strategies for effective paper-grading. And...
The good thing about lending someone your time machine? You pretty much get it back immediately. “I know, right?!” This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Lending Your Time Machine” Grant, I have an aphorism that I thought you would like...
What’s the difference between borrow and lend, or between borrow and loan? The real difference between these verbs is which direction the thing is traveling. Something similar happens with teach vs. learn and bring vs. take. This is part of a...
net branching n.— «Under the scenario, NARES was one of several shell corporations that operated under the name of “Pacific Bancorp.” The owners and directors of Pacific Bancorp granted franchise rights to do business in North Carolina to...
door-step lending n.— «Again it is the current state of the economy that is to blame—a drying of liquidity has seen a reduction in sub-prime lending, often known as “door-step lending.”» —“Lloyds insurance warns on rogue trading” Economy...
anticipointment n.— «It’s what I call “anticipointment.” […] You can’t make a promise and then have people feel you broke it, or you’re worse off than when you started. So now they just need to live up to it.» —“B of A rebranding ‘toxic’...