Co-author of "Agile Web Development with Rails" and "Getting Real." Co-writer of "Rework," "Remote," and "It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work" with Jason Fried.
Matt Taibbi wrote a great piece called The Left is Now the Right last year. It detailed how many of the tactics and thought processes anyone who came of age in the 90s would recognize as "of the right" are now being used by the opposite side of the political spectrum.
Letting students test into these institutions is falling out of favor under the same arguments that underpinned the calls to end blind auditions for orchestras.John McWhorter tackles this question from an interesting perspective in his new book: Does it help someone to be admitted to a school if their core competency isn't up to par?
Now, it's easy to get lost in post-modern nonsense. James Lindsay has done a great job exploring a bunch of it, as it relates to wokeness, in his New Discourses podcast. I've enjoyed several of those episodes. So I strongly suggest you measure the dose of this trippy thinking carefully.
This is the best explainer you'll find on the Australian law that made Facebook cut off an entire continent from sharing news. Goes beyond the shallow reading of "this is a link tax". If you can about the future of the internet, you should read it.