The Mrs Triggs Problem
summary
History of software is full of concrete surprises: Steve Shirley builds F International with £6 capital, runs a mainly remote flexible workforce where 297 of the first 300 staff were women and later gives employees shares so over 70 employees become millionaires at IPO; Grace Hopper writes the first compiler A0 in 1951; the ENIAC six program the machine and invent practical programming; concrete actions offered: audit pay, fix hiring loops, credit authorship, and repeat interventions that make teams actually fair.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:04Mrs Triggs problem
- 2:06Steve Shirley’s company
- 7:02Early computing history
- 8:27Grace Hopper’s career
- 10:33ENIAC programmers erased
- 13:39Hopper & Holberton’s legacy
- 16:04Other erased contributions
- 19:32Cartoon and exclusion
- 21:44Tech is political
- 23:50Stereotypes about competence
- 25:56Steps for fairness
- 28:06Mentorship and power
- 30:21Community accountability
- 31:48Conclusion
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