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#1 Organizational Incompetence: A review of research confirms the “Peter Principle” which says we are promoted to our level of incompetence. The writer proposes the only logical solution: “If performance at one level of a hierarchy is uncorrelated with performance at the next level up, the best strategy is simply to promote the very worst people”
#2 Instagram: Social critic Camille Paglia argues that we have lost touch with a sense of beauty and sexuality with everyone becoming an informal model on Instagram.
#3 Overdose-Resistant Humans?: Researchers have used CRISPR to create mice who do not die from cocaine overdoses.
#4 China: This creepy and seemingly a bit dramatic (maybe not?) digital story of how China is increasingly monitoring every aspect of citizen’s lives through a “social credit” score.
#5 Bonobos: I’m not sure if I shared this before, so I’m just going to share it again! The Bonobos founder on the “risk not taken”: “It turns out there is a risk in taking the steady job. The risk is generally not financial. It is spiritual.”
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