Meritocracy

Time and again, we are reminded of the adage: “There’s unity in diversity.” Contemplating this deeply would make one realise the vastness of this statement. Depending on the region of the world you operate in, diversity may connote issues of religion, race, nationality, ethnicity, class, gender, age, sexual orientation or…

Forget résumés – actual work samples from an interview candidate are better assessments of their capabilities. (Rawpixel pic)As much as 80% of employee turnover results from bad hires. That means approximately 40 million people leave their jobs – voluntarily or otherwise – because of bad hiring. The cost of a…

I love these visualized examples of JavaScript promises from Lydia Hallie.Jessica Kerr on why measuring efforts toward code quality can backfire.Aesthetics make a difference in how we perceive information, even when the information is about code. I’ve enjoying using Carbon to generate handsome code “screenshots” for my tweets, complete with…

Raymond (Darren Criss) and Jack (David Corenswet) have big Hollywood dreams, but they can’t get their feet in the door until they put different body parts somewhere else. Photo: Saeed Adyani/Netflix It’s been a while since I watched a new TV series that confounded and infuriated me quite as much…

There has long been a debate on the left between those who support universal programs of economic uplift — or providing certain goods as universal rights rather than as commodities, such as health care— and those who favor targeted efforts aimed at particular populations. It’s a debate that often divides…

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This essay is part of our 'a summer without...' series. Read more here. *** When you are seven years old and you are watching the French Open, and you don’t know better, you simply support Steffi Graf. It’s 1992, she is up against Monica Seles and she is about to…

Quantum computing is increasingly becoming the focus of scientists in fields such as physics and chemistry, and industrialists in the pharmaceutical, airplane, and automobile industries. Globally, research labs at companies like Google and IBM are spending extensive resources on improving quantum computers, and with good reason. Quantum computers use the…

While I haven’t physically left my apartment for longer than an hour at a time since mid-March, I’ve built a museum, two stores, a bridge, and three houses and planted various fruit and palm trees. Though my actual social and work lives have slowed to a crawl or halted entirely,…

A prison composed of “reading,” “writing,” “arithmatic” (yes, “arithmatic”), and the Bible. That is how an illustration in the latest issue of the Harvard Magazine portrays homeschooling. While other children run and play outside, the poor homeschooler squints out between the bars. (An updated version of this illustration changes “arithmatic”…