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Thanks so much, especially for your generously noncritical tone. I'm not going to talk about the teachers - teachers got more air-time on the TV piece than I did, which made me very happy. That's not what was left out of the piece.

I think the hardest thing you ask is the idea of declining 60 Minutes altogether. That seems wrong for the stakeholders in @codeorg's community. I need to digest whether I could have done this, esp in context that I was told this was a piece together with @ayahbdeir.

Of course, you also know that's a "large ask" :-)

Yup. Definitely understand that. But it was also an opportunity “during” the interview to elevate other contributors. I’ve done this in interviews, on stage, with funders in private discussions for YEARS.

Of course. Since you want to do this on Twitter, can you let me respond to all your tweets before responding? The twitter threads are hard to nav on a phone. And, yes, I know you understand.

In terms of what I said, one thing you didn't criticize is the (high-level) narrative of "not enough women in jobs ...wealthy white guy solution = teach girls to code", as if the only problem is the education pipeline. I'm guessing you know that's never been my narrative.