There's no guarantee a college graduate is going to get a job.

However, the  cost of education continues to rise every year.

The Bloom Institute of Technology is going in the opposite direction.

Tuitions can be paid from income earned after graduation. Or upfront.

The institute teaches courses in data sciences and full stack web. And instead of interviews, companies can try out students for a month without paying them

It's like bypassing the interview process altogether to see if the student delivers.

A risk-free way to determine the aptitude, the ability and the work ethic of students before committing to hire them.

Then, they can be absorbed for a full-time role

There must be a catch.

The condition is that students pay back  17.5% of their salaries for two years - after they start earning over $50,000 dollars a year.

If they don't make it in 60 months after graduating, they pay nothing.

Obviously this model works best in rapidly emerging technology areas where there is a mismatch between high demand and availability.

It seems like a win for everyone - the students, the school and for the companies that employ them.

Sad that this won't work for the vast majority of career options out there.

Are you a forwarder?

Of messages, not logistics.

Shooting them off with a flick of the thumb.

In the connected world of never-ending messages, how many breathless breakthroughs do you receive everyday?

A cure for asthma or cancer.

A set of exercises to make you lose weight overnight.

Or the key to a political conspiracy revealed.

If it was news, would the newspapers not be scooping it and broadcasting it for the world to hear?

Remember the emails that used to threaten ruin if you didn't forward them to friends?

Just select 10 people to send it to and you will be rewarded. Or condemned to eternal damnation.

Most of the time, the payoff is spiritual, beyond the control of mere mortals 

Gossip always traveled faster than real news.

That's still true of all offices

Work deadlines may be pushed. But affairs and linkups spread faster than butter on toast.

Our fondness for the sensational always wins over reasonable explanations.

Like ghost stories that spring up around empty houses.

Passed around from ear to ear and growing steadily in gory detail.

And with each narration, another saucy detail is added, another irresistible morsel that makes it all the more 'viral'

Spice is not for cooks alone

Responsive design for architects

Think of a simple blueprint for floor plans.

But imagine that architects could make their designs fluid as well.

Exactly like web designers who create wireframes that change shape when the desktop design is adapted to tablets or mobiles.

There's no reason architectural drawings cannot be transformed with the elements being moved around.

Want the room to be narrower? Or broader?

The entire house to fit within a narrow boundary or a broad one.

In a GIF on Twitter a home design adapts to any kind of space and the elements within fluidly arrange themselves.

With current software you have to draw out the dimensions of a room and then add textures or materials or furniture.

Then, if you want to change the width or the length of the space, there's no way to do it with the same design.

Yes, it is a lot easier than the earlier generation of software but in our mind, web spaces can be fluid, but buildings cannot be.

Maybe it is simply a stunt. No one wants to live in a shape shifting house.

But at the design stage, shape shifts can open up minds to new possibilities.

Take a look.

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