October 2011
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An eye opener about your own biases
Even though I have been preaching about this stuff, and admitting I have non-conscious biases, it still caught me off guard to see it in myself: a web demo of Harvard’s studies on our implicit, unconscious biases that you can take yourself in 5-10 minutes (per test).  Posted via email from a timocracy of one | Comment »
Oct 10th
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My response to the pushback on my diversity talks
After I gave a couple inflammatory talks on diversity and discrimination in the ruby community I got some feedback and pushback. Here is my response:  To use your example, plenty of hockey players are probably racist, actually, even if they don’t realize it. Not to pick on them, but part of my talk was about how pretty much everyone is, they just don’t consciously acknowledge it....
Oct 9th
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Pushback from my diversity talks
I’m anonymizing this to avoid causing a flame war for the quite reasonable guy who posted it, and because he followed up with this: Well, I’m glad we had our conversation last week. I feel less strongly about the issue now than I did before that conversation. I think I was mostly reacting to the inflammatory nature of your talk (ie. opening with calling the audience racists, bigots,...
Oct 9th
Video of the 'Scaling your Rubyists' the panel I...
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Oct 9th