Meritocracy

Scott Galloway predicts a handful of elite cyborg universities will soon monopolize higher education. Photo-Illustration: Joe Darrow Photo-Illustration: Joe Darrow Photo-Illustration: Joe Darrow In 2017, Scott Galloway anticipated Amazon’s $13.7 billion purchase of Whole Foods a month before it was announced. Last year, he called WeWork on its “seriously loco”…

A fired Amazon employee holds a sign during a protest outside an Amazon.com facility in the Staten Island borough of New York on May 1. Photo: AFPIn the US, new technology has divided society into technocratic and industrial classes, and the pandemic has thrown this divide into sharper relief. In…

Golf is not so much our profession as it is our passion at Golf Digest, and often that passion translates to philosophical, analytical, ideological and, occasionally, idiotic workplace discussions about the game. During this time of pause in our sport (and in the world at large), we decided to take…

HONG KONG -- Even though Li & Fung had been a Hong Kong fixture for more than a century, CEO Spencer Fung never anticipated a cushy job when he took over the world's largest sourcing company in 2014.Still, the problems plaguing the company's sprawling empire, built to connect retailers in…

Lecce announce all their players and staff tested negative for COVID-19, as captain Marco Mancosu admits they are ready to take ‘a calculated risk.’ Serie A clubs have been returning to training this week, but first undergoing swab and blood tests on all players and members of staff who will…

Sarah Broom’s New Orleans saga. Archives have always been contested spaces. Who and what gets recorded often has more to do with those in power than it does those without it. Historians have wrestled with this fact for decades, trying to address the assumed neutrality of the political and cultural…

Read part 2 of this examination of the value of dystopian fiction here. “The solar disc was no longer a well-defined sphere, but a wide-expanding ellipse that fanned out the eastern horizon like a colossal fire-ball." Thus unfolds JG Ballard’s masterful 1962 novel The Drowned World, which is about a planet beset by…

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…