Meritocracy

A psychological perspective on wealth, merit, and compassion. Posted Mar 03, 2020 Recent political events have many asking: "Is it moral to be a billionaire?" Source: Matt Lamers/Unsplash With billionaire Democratic candidate Mike Bloomberg recently qualifying to participate in the Democratic presidential primary debate, many people have had questions about…

Jack Welch, the former CEO of General Electric and one of the most influential business managers of the twentieth century, died Monday. He was 84.Welch spoke with 60 Minutes ahead of his retirement in 2001. At that point, he had spent the last two decades making G.E. competitive by aggressively…

Nora Denzel in conversation with Rob Wolcott for 3 Billion Seconds. ROBERT C. WOLCOTT Nora Denzel has always embraced change. While “women in tech” has become a big deal in the past decade, Denzel has been in the tech game since the 1980s. From high school hobbyist (her first kit…

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Photographer Artyom Tonoyan shared this image of Ai Weiwei’s “Safe Passage” at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (known as Mia), consisting of 2,400 life jackets once worn by refugees making the journey from Turkey to Greece. They were originally donated to Ai by the authorities in Lesbos, Greece. The work…

In the following excerpt from her new book Minor Feelings, out this week from One World, the poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong defines the titular emotions by way of the comedian Richard Pryor. Richard Pryor, 1969. Photo: Berk Costello. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Like most writers and artists,…

By Julia Gamolinalong ReadJean Brownhill is an architect and the founder and CEO of Sweeten, a service that matches people with major renovation projects to general contractors. She developed Sweeten while attending Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design as a Loeb Fellow in 2011 and is one of just 11…

You know how a stray comment can stick in your mind and not let you focus on anything else for a while? That happened this week. On Monday I had the chance to return to the Bay State for Ross Gittell’s class on community college leadership at the Harvard Graduate…

Feb 26, 2020Ariel HelwaniESPN Staff Writer Let's make something very clear right off the bat:Jose Aldo getting a bantamweight title shot against Henry Cejudo isn't the most egregious title shot in UFC history.No, that distinction still belongs to Alexander Gustafsson, who got a shot at then-light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier…

Lisa Nandy claims she “would have the courage to listen” to voters’ concerns about immigration, while arguing that Labour should make the case for freedom of movement. Nor was she alone in this balancing act: Keir Starmer attempted something similar on the Today programme yesterday, pledging to scrap the government’s…