A shallow and mechanistic evolutionary psychology approach isn't just wrong. Tech is a human field—not some sort of "pure" engineering work.
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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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If you were his supervisor, could you in good conscience have ever assigned him to work on a team with female colleagues, though?
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No, I understand the problem but the issue is that women are constantly expected to work with and FOR people who think like that. Fix that.
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Or, make an example, and guys like this will think twice before deciding to work at Google.
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