Do the Most Good
summary
Leaves a senior engineer job to join a presidential campaign, builds a campaign pattern library "pantsuit", launches a college-voter calculator and demos the site to the candidate, and watches a tech team grow from one hire to about 80 engineers designers and product managers. Documents unglamorous outreach — canvassing phonebanks paper collations — and measures impact beyond code. Highlights concrete wins and failures: pay gaps (Black women earning ~21¢ per white man’s dollar), company pay-transparency pilots, and hiring apprentices from incarceration.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:30Minas journey into doing good
- 5:30Tech is not good
- 8:27Understanding the problem
- 12:17What is an accomplice
- 17:53Personal stake
- 23:17The office
- 24:17The data room
- 27:07Was it worth it
- 28:57Food
- 33:57The Future
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