#Meritocracy

Sona Charaipotra

sona_c

Agree w / lovely @gildedspine's rant abt this. Saw some confusion abt what IP or write-for-hire actually means. My take as the co-founder of @CAKELiteary: get ready, because it's always

EsportsCI

EsportsCi

We are excited to announce the launch of Esports Certification Institute, a Public Benefit Corporation created to foster professionalism, promote meritocracy, and increase diversity and inclusion in esports. ECI was

lolitataub

lolitataub

Why are so few VC dollars going to underestimated founders? Nepotism Lack of meritocracy / old-school pattern matching Homogeneous pool of investors Inability to see opportunity in problems/solutions observed

jinguangyaospookyhatfeelings

jinguangyaohat1

The thing for me is that JGY's choices? The ones he was born into? They were shit choices.Like--a poor person in that society? They lead a very vulnerable life, right.

Varun Aggarwala

aggarv

You can be a liberal and still be incredibly racist. A white liberal female scientist, whom I know well often uses the phrase "shitty countries" to describe most Asian nations

mysara aljaru

heymysara

The Singapore mainstream media has close proximity to the state as we all know. Which means it tends to reproduce a lot of the state narrative on minorities that reproduce

Dr. Paige Harden

kph3k

My favorite part of this @NathanJRobinson critique of DeBoer’s “cult of the smart” is when he describes a position that is pretty damn close to mine as “a little bit

Lim Wei Jiet 🇲🇾

limweijiet

Have spent d last few days on "Dialog: Thoughts on Tunku's Timeless Thinking".What a remarkable & visually stunning memoir of Tunku Abdul Rahman. Here are 10 insightful nuggets of wisdom

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

Writing in @matthewstoller's BIG newsletter, @samhaselby makes the case that US elite universities - the Ivies - are a cartel that uses its monopoly to reproduce its monopoly, to the

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SteveOnSports

Done digging. Here's what I found.The people who made this have the best intentions and are good people and genuinely want to make esports better, but I don't think this

Charity Majors

mipsytipsy

storytime. so, one of my last social outings (Feb) was a bunch of women in tech, out for drinks, telling war stories. at some point one says, a little sheepishly:"i'm

Dr. Ameena

amkmusty

Dr. Abah @DrJoeAbah will be speaking at this event. Alongside the VP @ProfOsinbajo and Mrs @IbukunAwosika.You do not want to miss it. Starts at 11 am sharp, today.https://twitter.com/DrJoeAbah/status/1312312666808082432 A nation

Timea Tabori

TimeaTabori

I've been reading Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed For Men by Caroline Criado Perez and it got me thinking about how the huge amount of invisible

David Bowles (hiatus to write GÜERO sequel) 🏳️‍🌈

DavidOBowles

I’ll let you in on a secret. I have a doctorate in education, but the field’s basically just a 100 years old. We don’t really know what we’re doing. Our

Aleks Larsen

_alekslarsen

It's very tempting in the face of trading/speculation-driven growth to look at what's happening in DeFi lately and shrug it off as another manifestation of the 2017/18 ICO bubble. This

Irina Dumitrescu

irinibus

Look, this is a really sweet story about how we are all making do right now. I don't want to subtweet @jayvanbavel, whom I don't know, but he sounds like