Interns

Today's breakfast conversation, how to get some teenagers into intern positions. "This seems doable." I love it when people realize they can do something. By Monday, we should have a plan to build a cadre of companies in the Bay Area to introduce kids to living wage jobs that you don't have to have a college degree to do.*

What is possible is exactly what we have been exposed to. You don't know what you don't know. And no one else does either. Do not let your stereotypes define who can do your job. You aren't actually that special. Don't let your comfort, your assumptions and the fact that you don't want to think about how you live in the world, keep the world the way that it is. Obviously you don't like it or you wouldn't be tweeting about it.

• Unsurprisingly, I have opinions about college as a way into the middle class, aka out of poverty. I think that the changes to student loans that have happened over the last 20 years have been more about the government finding a new tax base than any expanding need for a college educated workforce. Sure, there are jobs that need a 4 year degree, but accounting isn't one.