Military metaphors have been weirdly popular in business for a very long time, and the startup world is sadly no exception. If you’re part… — Military metaphors have been weirdly popular in business for a very long time, and the startup world is sadly no exception. If you’re part of the circus, there’s a reasonable chance you might have been ‘killing it’, went on a ‘retreat’, ‘established a bridgehead’, or hell, ‘disrupted’ an entire industry…

TL;DR —I’m aiming to provoke meaningful, head-shaking neuronal activity by claiming that pseudo-meritocracies are worse than no meritocracy… — TL;DR —I’m aiming to provoke meaningful, head-shaking neuronal activity by claiming that pseudo-meritocracies are worse than no meritocracy at all: After all, in an explicit aristocracy, the underprivileged are at least spared the futile struggle and humiliation that comes with making it to a top that is not reachable.