#meritocracy

#meritocracy

One of the benefits of having a healthy roster is that the coach has choices. How he uses that decision making power is another question. At the moment, Hansi Flick is evaluating his players one game at a time, and based on performances, choosing who gets the start. This has been possibly recently, because finally, most of the team is fit and available. The results are starting to roll in, and so far, meritocracy, as manifested through the eyes of the manager, is working.

It's fine. I don't care if Bill Ackmanwhatever Bill Ackman doesbut I know Bill Ackman. He's kind of dumb. He's not ever created anything. He's totally non-creative. How do these people wind up running our biggest institutions? Carlson fumed, adding: And the reason that's significant is because if you pay close enough attention and you realize that the people running everything are stupid, then you think, Well, actually, the system is truly rigged on behalf of people who do not deserve these positions at all.

It wouldn't be true to say that the press has stopped covering the aristocracy, since the Telegraph diligently covers the great estates, but the discussion now comes framed by the idea of meritocracy, which is objectively pretty ridiculous. So the Hon Nick Howard told the Telegraph a fortnight ago, If my son wants to take over [Castle Howard], he'll have to pass an interview, while other great estate owners stress their role as rewilders, ecowarriors or, at their most traditional, conservationists.

The first essay anybody writes is for school. Same here. But the only examples I remember are the ones I wrote at the end, in my A-level exams. One compared Hitler to Stalin. Another, Martin Luther King, Jr., to Malcolm X. I was proudest of the essay that considered whether the poet John Milton-pace William Blake-was "of the devil's party without knowing it." I did well on those standardized tests, but even passing was far from a foregone conclusion.

OpenAI has a "bottoms-up" culture, especially in its research departments. This makes the company "very meritocratic," where promotions are based on idea generation and execution.

In Texas, government entities should not be treating people differently based on anything other than merit. We have got to bring back a focus on meritocracy.

LeBron James reflected on how much different the experiences of young basketball players today are compared to his own upbringing, indicating a shift in the game's landscape.

President Trump took aim at college accreditors through an executive order designed to investigate certain agencies and enforce meritocracy in education.

Hey, Trump administration, now you're just like the rest of us because you just got rejected by Harvard.