When Do We Belong?
summary
Argues that status in tech is earned by displays of contempt culture not merit and shows concrete examples: historical pushback against PHP and Rails, the gatekeeping praise of the command line, and an embarrassing Calgary meetup anecdote. Demonstrates hiring bias with a Bob versus Rikesh interview scenario, links those behaviors to pervasive imposter syndrome, and names interventions like a code of conduct and changing tooling attitudes as practical steps to reduce exclusion rather than vague diversity slogans, urging measurable cultural change.
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chapters (57)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:25JOURNEY
- 1:41HEAD FAKE?
- 2:00DEVOPS HEADFAKE
- 2:59CAN'T CODE
- 3:21ON THE FLIP SIDE
- 4:12CONTEMPT CULTURE
- 4:31REPLACEABLE
- 5:13BELONGING
- 5:27THE RIGHT STUFF
- 6:11THE RIGHT KNOWLEDGE
- 6:49THE RIGHT WORDS
- 7:19JOB ANNOUNCEMENTS
- 8:17OUTSIDER
- 8:27NOT AN IMPOSTOR
- 8:41PASSION
- 9:10THE SELF-TAUGHT NARRATIVE
- 9:30THE LONE GENIUS
- 9:59APPROPRIATE LANGUAGE
- 10:11WEB APPS
- 11:04BLESS {}
- 11:28SIMPLE CHANGES
- 11:41FROM SCRATCH
- 12:32ACCEPTABILITY
- 12:49KNOW BETTER
- 13:30LOTS OF BIASES
- 14:07LET'S MEET BOB AND RAKESH
- 14:22AND BOB IS GREAT
- 15:13AWKWARD SILENCE
- 17:48POINT AND DROOL
- 18:56CONTEMPTUOUS TOOLING
- 19:07POISON
- 19:37THAT'S NOT THE REASON
- 19:56EROSION
- 20:13INLINE HTML
- 21:09WITHOUT PHP
- 21:44RAILS
- 22:45It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration
- 22:56LUMINARY
- 23:10BECAUSE IT WAS EASY
- 23:23UNDERMINES POWER
- 23:40THE FALSE MERITOCRACY
- 25:54COMPILER THEORY
- 26:32ANXIETY (AS A SERVICE)
- 26:53SHIFTING GROUND
- 27:08INTRUDER
- 28:14DESIRED
- 29:29COSTS
- 29:40WE CHOOSE THIS
- 29:53JAVA
- 30:07WINDOWS
- 30:58UNFLATTERING LIGHT
- 31:18AWARENESS
- 32:38SEEKING
- 33:05OTHER SKILLS, OTHER FIELDS
- 33:24SHOW ME YOUR COOL THING
- 33:43A BETTER INDUSTRY
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