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Interesting Things on the Internet: March 5th 2018

• Why hiring the ‘best’ people produces the least creative results. "Corporations, non-profits, governments, universities and even preschools test, score and hire the ‘best’. This all but guarantees not creating the best team. Ranking people by common criteria produces homogeneity. And when biases creep in, it results in people who look like those making the decisions. That’s not likely to lead to breakthroughs."
• Review of The Tyranny of Metrics by Jerry Muller. "Rather than rely on the informed judgment of people familiar with the situation, we gather meaningless numbers at great cost. We then use them to guide our actions, predictably causing unintended damage."
• Don't Be Evil. Fred Turner on Utopias, Frontiers, and Brogrammers
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