Marc Andreessen (he of Netscape/Mosaic fame) has some pretty good advice about hiring good people.
Despite everything we hear these days about the importance of intelligence, Andreessen thinks it’s an overrated quality. He prefers people with drive, curiosity and a strong sense of ethics.
Link via a recent addition to the blogroll, University Design.
As part of its recent package of stories about the college rankings game (and as reported on this blog a few weeks back) , The Chronicle of Higher Education offers a table showing how the highest-ranking universities and liberal arts colleges have fared over the past 25 years. It’s a nice tool that might be useful for those schools that have managed to crack the top 50 during that quarter century — or for those who want to attempt to glean some insight about how those schools by looking at the data over time. But for the rest of us, it doesn’t do a lot of good.
Link via SimpsonScarborough, where Elizabeth Scarborough discusses the subject in more detail.
Andy writes! 