Unicorns Are Actually Terrifying...
summary
Claim: calling people unicorns don't exist turns compliment into isolation and fuels imposter syndrome. Evidence: self-reported 2015 company demographics and NSF 2004–2014 charts show slow gains but persistent gaps. Diagnosis: the problem is surface-level diversity, not just the pipeline. Remedies offered: unconscious-bias training, recruiting from public and community colleges, valuing nontraditional experience, and building retention practices that treat hires as skilled contributors rather than quota-fillers.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:53What is a Unicorn
- 4:06Imposter Syndrome
- 5:16Unicorns
- 5:57Diversity
- 6:20Oddities
- 6:52Impossible
- 9:03Lack of Diversity
- 9:39Tech Diversity
- 11:10Companies Diversity
- 12:49Retaining Diversity
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