Recommended Reading Roundup - November 16th

Recommended Reading Roundup – November 16th

Happy weekend everyone! Enjoy this week’s recommended reading roundup:

Everything You Need To Know About Make-A-Wish Foundation’s Adorable, Crime-Fighting Batkid

I know you’ve all probably already seen this/read about it/loved it, but in the off chance you missed it, read immediately. The Make a Wish Foundation and the city of San Francisco (11,000 people) got together to make Miles’s wish come true. This adorable 5 year old (whose leukemia is in remission) escapades around the city having a ball and fighting crime. It is beyond touching. Makes me miss SF!

via Buzzfeed.com

The Essential Thanksgiving Guide from the NYTimes – So while I will not be preparing our Thanksgiving dinner (thank you mom and mom-in-law) in a few weeks, many of you out there are (or at least helping!). The NYTimes breaks it down for us and shares their best recipes for all of the Thanksgiving classics.

via NYTimes.com

The Daily Muse shows off pretty funny (but also kind of depressing) Google autofills related to careers & the job search – sad! It doesn’t have to be this bad everyone!

via DailyMuse.com

Cupcakes & Cashmere (a blog I absolutely love) has started a career 101 column. This week Emily writes about mentorship and how she found her mentor. I think one of the most important points she makes is about the relationship beginning organically. Walking up to someone and asking them to be your mentor, isn’t generally going to result in anything productive. The most beneficial mentor/mentee relationship goes both ways (i.e. you have something to offer them too).

And lastly, another one of my favorite bloggers (Cup of Jo) shares her thoughts on stepping away from the iphone… and musing over how dependent she (we all) have become. I often think I am way too addicted to my phone and feel myself more tethered to it than ever. The cartoon below is the perfect example of how sad it is – “look at the picture I took of the thing we’re looking at” – ha!