meritocracy in silicon valley

Silicon Valley's Mirror Effect http://nyti.ms/1wsbYyX

Jodi Kantor http://on.cc.com/1ihg1sM 

http://www.stanforddaily.com/2013/03/16/maddow-visits-stanford-for-first-time-since-graduating/

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/12/23/us/gender-gaps-stanford-94.html

[AoTD] Poverty in NY

http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2013/invisible-child/#/?chapt=1

• One in five American children is now living in poverty, giving the United States the highest child poverty rate of any developed nation except for Romania
• wiry girl whose proud posture overwhelms her 4-foot-8 frame
• It is an ironic fact of being poor in a rich city that the donated garments Dasani and her siblings wear lend them the veneer of affluence, at least from a distance. 
• By the time Mayor Bloomberg took office in 2002, New York's homeless population had reached 31,063 — a record for the city, which is legally obligated to provide shelter.
• Dasani possesses what adults at McKinney consider an intuitive approach to learning, the kind that comes when rare smarts combine with extreme life circumstances. Her intelligence is "uncanny" and "far surpasses peers her age," one counselor writes. "Student is continuously using critical analysis to reflect upon situations and interactions.

[source : http://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-best-business-writing-2014/9780231170154]

Tagore on Love

http://www.iop.or.jp/Documents/0818/mukherjee.pdf

O what is this !

Mysterious and uncapturable Bliss

That I have known and yet seems to be

Simple as breathe and easy as a smile

And older than the earth.

Home

Home is an emotion
Not tied to walls and a roof.
For those who learn to stop and smell
This notion turns to truth

For some it takes a cradle
For some it takes a grave
Very few can realize it
Without a close shave

Home is also the people
Who you call your own
Some of whom
you might like to disown

It's a place
Where families thrive
Doing all that they
Need to survive

Home is a shelter
From all that's out there
But don't they say
The truth is out there

Home might be
A notion in our head
But a child
Would have nothing instead.

Facebook graph search for recommendations

Hands-On With Facebook Post Search: Strong Recommendations, Yelp Should Worry http://tcrn.ch/1zlTEwW via @techcrunch
Hmm how likely are people to post bad experiences on their facebook profile pages. They are more likely to Crib on yelp and more likely to praise on Facebook.