Brogrammer Culture in Tech
summary
Argues that a pervasive brogrammer culture starts in college, creates gatekeepers, and leaves as few as 1 in 100 people of color or women at conferences; cites the titstare hackathon and Whitney Wolfe’s resignation as concrete examples of exclusion and harassment. Describes building community (Glitch City), running hacker spaces in Watts and Urban TxT workshops, and reports that students actually built apps to feed their community, showing community programs work where top‑down change does not.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:02Culture
- 3:53Negativity
- 5:11People of Color
- 6:10Diversity in Tech
- 6:56Why should we care
- 8:39Tinder
- 9:20Where it happens
- 10:17San Francisco
- 10:56Whats next
- 11:24Silicon Beach
- 12:00Where does it all start
- 12:38You wont get the job
- 13:38Change yourself
- 14:03Programmers
- 15:00Change the Next Generation
- 15:48Diversity
- 16:34Outro
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