Arranged marriages, be it in Jewish, Indian or few hundred years ago almost everywhere in the world have lasted much longer than autonomous marriages because in those, multiple experienced people who had a history of good relationships chose partners for their kids. Based on their experience, they could determine ideal partners for their kids... not only for a certain period but for the lifetime.
Applying the same idea to hiring should improve hiring.
1. Get the most experienced people in the hiring team... i.e. the people who have the most experience working with people in the position already.
2. Interviewing the candidates should not be the biggest part of the process. Take time to interview their mentors, previous employers and coworkers.
Democrats fought for 100 years for confederacy in order to keep the slaves... and lost. Now, they are fighting to keep low wage illegal immigrants. When will they learn?
Anyone who defends "basic income" needs basic understanding in economics, which I think is much more valuable thing to have than basic income.
You can't eat money. Money is just a facilitator for complicated bartering. If everyone in the world was given a millon dollars in cash by some aliens, since the things we actually want to barter would not change in any way, that would serve no purpose. Prices would adjust up and everything would stay the same. Noone would be able to afford more than they already did.
Clickbait, but then I wouldn't expect anything better from NYT.
TLDR: Don't "be yourself"... because that somehow means telling attractive people that you want to sleep with them and telling your in-laws that they were boring. Instead, "be sincere"... which is anyone not willing to twist things to make a clickbait headline would think "be yourself" is.