The Googleplex already has a reputation as being a kind of Emerald City within Mountain View—pet friendly, masseurs on staff, Lego-topian mindsets—but the best company to work for has kept one perk relatively quiet: Google University’s School of Personal Growth.
It’s not really been a secret, the principals have mentioned it when out and about spreading inner peace, but a Google search for Google University won’t bring back the results one is looking for. Only available on the company intranet, Google University—the building down the road from the Googleplex—is available only to Googlers. And, one imagines, patchouli salesmen.
The School of Personal Growth has gained some attention thanks to a couple of obscure statements by two of the school’s founders, Monika Broecker, who left Google last year to start her own that guy who gets his picture made with every famous person to walk through the doors, a Buddhist and buddy to the American Dalai Lama.
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What’s the mission? According to Happiness and Its Causes—part of that apparently being taking control of one’s Timothy Leary Memorial Auditorium or guest appearances by Be Here Now is a vital part of the curriculum.
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