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LENDING PRIVILEGE

Via @anjuan

  • Tech inclusion pledge
  • Move from diversity to inclusion and empath
    • Diversity: inviting everyone to the party (too easy to checkbox)
    • Inclusion, empathy: making sure everyone feels comfortable at the party
  • Moving away from diversity towards inclusion
  • Actual value to inclusion:
    • Inclusive teams are innovative teams
  • Inclusion is at the heart of open source
    • The cathedral and the bazaar (Eric S. Raymond)
      • The miracle that is Linux
      • Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow
      • Given enough large beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix obvious to someone — is a statement of inclusion
  • Often our companies are protected by privilege
    • Access denied
  • What privilege is not
    • Doesn’t mean you haven’t:
      • Worked hard, sacrificed, not good at what you do
  • Privilege
    • Is like riding a bike up a hill
  • People without privilege have other obstacles for getting up that hill
  • With privilege, things are a little easier for you
  • Privilege == access to benefits based on things that you have
  • Birth privileges are root of most biases, prejudices
  • Selective privileges, things that you choose
    • School, religion, gender identity
  • Of our nature to share our privilege with people who have that privilege (gender, racial)
  • More powerful to share privilege with people who do not have that privilege
  • Portfolio of privilege
    • Parental, racial, education, religion, physical, gender
    • Pick one that you have… What would you career in tech be without that privilege?
    • Now think, there are people you work with every day who have to navigate the tech scene without this privilege
  • Having a more inclusive industry benefits everyone
    • Marginalization is on the way out:
      • The Panama Papers
      • Class privilege is over
  • Credibility lending
    • LGBT feel invisible, not recognized.
    • Fix: credibility lending
    • E.g. raise someone’s profile within your company, who does not share some of your privilege(s)
  • Access lending
    • E.g. you have access to things based on your privilege (such as invitation to speak at an event), lend that access
  • Expertise lending
    • Someone who feels they don’t have a voice, lacking leaders in tech industry with their background
    • SxSW, Michelle Obama: If you have a voice at the table, ask if there is diversity at the table, are there voices that don’t sound like yours?
    • E.g. give someone the opportunity to lead at your company
  • Your turn to lend
  • Lending privilege:
    • Not a silver bullet
    • Needs to be a philosophy of life
    • Need to believe in the benefit of inclusion: innovation
    • Not a sprint, a marathon, need to do it every day. This is the only way we can truly get change in this industry.

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Tue Jun 28 16:25:00 PDT 2016