Companies Need To Pay People More.
Blodget is on a tirade about income inequality, or more specifically wage inequality. I hope some corporations get the message, but even so I suspect shareholders would revolt at a decrease in returns in order to pay fairer wages.
Why GitHubs CEO Ditched Its Divisive Meritocracy Rug – ReadWrite.
This is interesting. I’m not unaware of how privilege gives an advantage to those who have it, but I had not considered the corrupting influence it has on the idea of a meritocracy. I do not wish to imply that meritocracies are invalid. Certainly a meritocracy is a noble goal, but you do have to consider that the effect of privilege is to limit the opportunity of some to participate in the meritocracy.
Mac OS X Helps Optimize Your Home Wi-Fi Network.
This is amazing. What an incredibly useful tool built in to OS X, something you might otherwise have to download separately.
This is great. Obama makes the perfect strait man with his deadpan delivery. via The Fix.
Obamacare and the Republican War on Competence : The New Yorker.
This is a concise and well-written critique of the current Republican agenda.
Project Ara: Inside Google’s Bold Gambit to Make Smartphones Modular | TIME.com.
This project is a good interpretation of the PhoneBlocks concept. I’m particularly excited to see it being developed by a large handset maker, though the recent sale of the consumer phone side of the business doesn’t necessarily bode well for seeing a product result from the project. I’m also dubious that there is enough consumer demand for a modular phone (my own personal interest notwithstanding).
This is an interesting and depressing story about ITER and fusion reactors. It doesn’t seem likely that the project will ever succeed with it’s current bureaucratic structure.
Now Antidepressant-Induced Chronic Depression Has a Name: Tardive Dysphoria | Psychology Today.
This is a rather disturbing read and should give pause to anyone thinking of taking antidepressants. The pharmaceutical industry should be called to task to answer to this information, though their response is all but assured to be naught but denial of such effects or even knowledge of such a possible outcome. The prerequisite to line their pockets makes the testimony of any representative of large business suspect (at best). I hope that additional information is forthcoming on this subject, we are the proverbial blind being led by the blind. Our understanding of the brain is woefully inadequate to our desire to control, or even just to tweak, it.
FMS: Feature [Part I: Igor Stravinsky on Film Music].
In some sense it is fascinating to see an artist rail against the progression of art and the coming new paradigm. It is also a bit famiar, the old guard dismissing a new medium. The rebuttal is perfect, as is Stravinsky’s reported remarks on it:
What’s with Raskin? Why does he attack me?