Sunday, January 6, 2013

John Fairfax, Who Rowed Across Oceans, Dies at 74

Unbelievable life story:
At 9, he settled a dispute with a pistol. At 13, he lit out for the Amazon jungle.  
At 20, he attempted suicide-by-jaguar. Afterward he was apprenticed to a pirate. To please his mother, who did not take kindly to his being a pirate, he briefly managed a mink farm, one of the few truly dull entries on his otherwise crackling résumé, which lately included a career as a professional gambler.
Read more in the NYT. (Thanks, Lucy)

Why Women Aren’t C.E.O.s, According to Women Who Almost Were

"It’s not a pipeline problem. It’s about loneliness, competition and deeply rooted barriers." Read more in the NYT .