took me most of this thread to realize that he thought these Interesting pragmatic observations were a bad thing kind of a split in the conception of work jobs as pies to be divied up vs jobs as deadly serious mechanisms for accomplishing ends https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1185634274529009664 …
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there were a bunch of thoughtful responses my especial interest was not "is/when is diversity useful for teams" but rather just the view of jobs as a means to a practical end vs as a spoil to be distributed arguments re "diversity" (on both sides) maybe a smokescreen for (ii)
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that said the actual question of diversity qua diversity as useful for (i) is kind of interesting predictably I don't trust """studies""""" here and fortunately there were some nice arguments from techne in the responses
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@dchem had a long thread centered on military units that I enjoyed https://twitter.com/dchem/status/1186089234752389120?s=19 …eigenrobot added,
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@lizthedeveloper had a good summary of her takeaways from actually running startups plural coming down hard on the pro-diversity sidehttps://twitter.com/lizthedeveloper/status/1186047945054941184?s=19 …eigenrobot added,
BizTheDeveloper @lizthedeveloperReplying to @eigenrobotI’ve run ~4 startups in various roles with various makeups and worked in a dozen more, ime if your team isn’t diverse they will: - make obvious unforced errors - divert a lot of time doing questionably valuable things in order to differentiate themselves - narrow ur talent pool1 reply 0 retweets 13 likesShow this thread -
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@arachnocapital2, v much like the idea of "add" vs "fit" downthread also worth reading if you hire or want to be hiredhttps://twitter.com/arachnocapital2/status/1186108400825798656?s=19 …eigenrobot added,
Matt "jira delenda est" Olson @arachnocapital2Replying to @eigenrobotI've kind of approached it like moneyball - if AMZN (it's just an example) are overemphasizing degree-holding techbros in their hiring, I can go after people who don't fit that profile and have a better chance of hiring them best dev I've hired has Lit and Law degrees, not CS2 replies 0 retweets 7 likesShow this thread
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and @ivashko
realizing i know nothing about hiring (and can't make legible why people are willing to hire me)
also starting to suspect making sweeping statements in this area is likely to be foolish
imagine that https://twitter.com/ivashko/status/1186109371551322112?s=19 …
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@sadmoonanalog worth reading the two above especially0 replies 0 retweets 2 likesShow this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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