Having hired people in Europe and the US, I can absolutely agree with Aaron Swartz in this post on how to promote startups. The healthcare issue in the US is a really big pain in the neck and I can’t help but feel if someone proposed the current system they’d be rightly described as totally nuts.
Of course we have to live with the current situation, and we do what we need to do to be a good corporate citizen and attract good people. But I can’t help but roll my eyes occasionally at the craziness of connecting employment and healthcare, and marvel at the continuing costs paid by everyone for what is (to an outsider’s eye) a pretty arbitrary connection.
Simon Coles
This is off topic
For those afraid of computers or so attached to pen and paper they can’t change to an all electronic lab notebook, there is a review on a magic pen that gives you the Onenote benefits (organization, searchability,…) while still letting you doodle away with paper and pen.
http://e-lab-book.com/?p=372