So Your Democracy is Dying…
By now most people are aware of the the post World War II confessional “First They Came For”It has struck many people that the police can lawfully (I use that word ironically) break into a home, kill...
View ArticleThe Legacy of Uber’s Absent Leadership
I read that there is a petition circulating at Uber to bring Travis back. For for those petitioning for it, I have a small piece of advice: Take your heads out of your collective asses.Uber employees...
View ArticleTech’s Term Sheets of Harassment
Silicon Valley is coming to terms with courageous women sharing their painful and disturbing experiences of sexist, misogynistic behavior and unwanted advances of Venture Capitalists like Justin...
View ArticleThe #TechHearings Thoughts from my time in Product Safety at Twitter
I created the Product Safety and Security Team at Twitter. At different points in time I was responsible for the engineering of tools to mitigate Abuse, Compromised Accounts and the Login...
View ArticleInequality is Everywhere in Tech. And Tech is ok with it.
Every year, for the past 4 years, Silicon Valley goes on their penance tour of carefully selected media outlets to tell their diversity and inclusion stories. The reports are carefully crafted to avoid...
View ArticleHe Was Our Father 1944–2019
My father died this past week after suffering injuries in a fire at his home. His death is as tragic as his life. Yet it has afforded me time and space to reflect on his influence and impact over the...
View ArticleYou Are Complicit
White people of america, take a moment to reflect on the reality that many of you have and continue to witness black people brutalized and killed for the better part of a the last decade. A decade of...
View ArticleA Tech Co-Founder Just Gave Me A Master Class in Centering Whiteness
As #BlackHistoryMonth winds down, I was reminded with how pernicious #whiteness can be.This reminder was delivered during an online conversation with one of the co-founders of Arbo Works (and a former...
View ArticleGood Leaders Don’t Buy and Sell People. Even Hypothetically
A Google Senior Vice President and one of Google’s first 10 employees recently tweeted:And while this has gotten a lot of press and been rightly criticized, my experience with this person in 2018 at...
View ArticleGood Leaders Don’t Buy and Sell People. Even Hypothetically
A Google Senior Vice President and one of Google’s first 10 employees recently tweeted:And while this has gotten a lot of press and been rightly criticized, my experience with this person in 2018 at...
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