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I respect that she sacrificed her prestigious role to force Google to at least admit where they really stand.
by spacekitcat 6y ago
I respect that she sacrificed her prestigious role to force Google to at least admit where they really stand.
- rafiki6 6y agoUnfortunately, it's clearly more complex than that. To be fair, it seems that she has made it about that to an extent and media ran with it. We haven't heard from google or her superiors. It's clear they didn't agree but to what extent? And why did she need to publicly quit? Again, she quit. She wasn't asked to leave or resign. She volunteered to do so because she had a moral disagreement with the company. And that's fair. We don't really know if she was treated fairly or unfairly just her claims of what happened.
- loopz 6y ago"Old men's club" is real and need a shakeup. However, the elite clubs hurt both genders, not just one of them. It is not balanced by an equally forceful swing the other direction, but by emphasis on mutual respect for diversity of people. Sometimes measures need to be put in place to get the ball rolling, but they should be temporary.
- spacekitcat 6y agoI think we agree.
- loopz 6y agoYeah, but "The Middle Path" is a hard sell to the masses.
- spacekitcat 6y agoI think there's a weird seam of irrational rage around the mere suggestion that tech isn't some utopian meritocracy. I find it jarring.
- loopz 6y agoYep. People mistake means for the ends. Anybody may be susceptible to such ideology and short-circuited bias. However, technical people are often so focused on their details, we are probably even more vulnerable to this than most.