Lending Privilege
summary
Argues that everyone holds some form of privilege and can lend it through concrete acts: credibility lending (give visibility, invite a low‑profile engineer to present to execs), access lending (buy conference passes, nominate someone for a role), expertise lending (assign leadership on high‑impact projects). Uses specific precedents — Nimoy pushed for Nichols’s pay, Colbert spotlighted DeRay — and frames lending as repeatable, measurable changes that increase retention, promotion rates, and product quality.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00The problem of inequality
- 1:31Lessons from Leonard Nimoy
- 2:59The necessity of inclusion
- 5:25Business case and definitions
- 8:12Grassroots change in tech
- 10:05The open source model
- 13:06Understanding privilege
- 18:41Types of privilege lending
- 25:42Strategic diversification
- 29:16A call to action
