One (narcissistic) error is the belief that engineering is difficult and require smarts and human interactions are easy, simple. hahahahhaa
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Remember the Google Buzz privacy fiasco? Facebook "it's been a great year" algorithmic cruelty? A sociology undergrad could've told them.
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Tech companies are full of people who are really good at very narrow, limited domain—and don't realize how much help they actually need.
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That manifesto was, frankly, not very smart. But if it had been correct, the corollary would be tech needs an enormous infusion of women.
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I'm not an essentialist. I understand the ways society blunts men. But they can fight it—and get better at the skills tech actually needs.
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Tech needs more women *and* people of color *and* people from poor backgrounds—not as charity but to get the help it *desperately* needs.
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I don't mean to say they can't remain profitable. But this: the skills they sorely lack in-house is manifesting as harm around the world.
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My likely unpopular opinion. Google manifesto guy should not have been fired. Doesn't solve the problem. Punishing a single person isn't it.
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He wrote things that, frankly, were not very smart—but commonly believed. I'd prefer to treat it as an opportunity to fully air the problem.
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I think firing him allows for the problem to be fully aired without negatively impacting women/POC who would have had to work with him.
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Knowing what I know of Silicon Valley, I genuinely expect the opposite.
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Oh yeah, noooooo one in SV or tech is talking about this now that he's been fired
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