Creating More Inclusive Tech Spaces: Paths Forward
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Argues that numbers alone fail—representation rises while power stays concentrated, as Amazon’s workforce data shows—and urges measurement of equity through recursivity over efficiency with metrics for how outputs circulate back as local inputs. Recommends specific practices: six organizational routines that create recursive depth, repeated high‑frequency mixed interactions, shared insider status, and community enforcement modeled on Maine lobster councils with codes of conduct with graduated sanctions. Offers generative justice as a framework and cites cross‑disciplinary studies and a few concrete examples.
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chapters (26)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:17My background
- 1:30Confessionary slide
- 3:11Examples
- 3:31Thesis Statement
- 4:04Rebalancing a Spectrum
- 4:16Paths Forward
- 5:25Technology
- 5:37Technology with Powers
- 6:48Cotton Picking Machine
- 7:33Diversity in Tech
- 8:33Sociotechnical Systems
- 9:49Pinyon Jay Example
- 14:37Diversity
- 15:30Code of Conduct
- 16:26Defining Diversity
- 18:28Live Practice
- 20:43Amazon
- 21:50Representation doesnt always mean power
- 22:46Efficiency to recursivity
- 23:34Market logic for diversity
- 24:07Recursivity
- 26:58Recursive Depth
- 29:19The Graph
- 37:12Summary
- 40:07Bibliography
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