Inviting People In
summary
Concrete steps, not platitudes: use the positionality wheel (12 facets) to audit who’s on the team, run usability testing with participants who match real users, consult localization (German needed; bump Chinese fonts from 14 to 16), lean on ERGs and translators, set up Donut chat pairs and an onboarding buddy, ask teammates directly what accommodations they need, and treat hiring as intentional outreach for missing perspectives rather than autopilot resume filtering.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:15Remote collaboration walls
- 4:21Yourself and your team
- 7:33Inviting missing perspectives
- 11:47Hiring full perspective team
- 13:10Times we didn’t fit in
- 17:46Inviting people in
- 20:35Psychological safety conversations
- 25:09Follow-through in safety
- 28:15Safe spaces building
- 30:22Inclusion efforts reflection
- 31:26Start small today
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