Paul Graham Isn't Keeping Women out of Tech
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Paul Graham Isn't Keeping Women out of Tech
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#2This article seems to be related to http://valleywag.gawker.com/paul-graham-says-women-havent-be...
It is the first time I saw Paul Graham appear on my Facebook. It is not worth reading, the author is just going for clicks by making baseless accusations. Paul also claims he was misquoted and thinks he should start bringing a recorder to interviews.
It is a shame, one of the appeals of reading a Paul Graham interview or his writing was that it was very open, I hope his no doubt hiring a PR filter or being more reserved with his words will not reduce the quality.
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#3But that doesn’t give us free reign to ignore the problems that exist in universities, accelerators, tech companies and venture capital. These pieces of the funnel need to be thoroughly analyzed and optimized for inclusion - be it for gender, race, age, or other markers, so that we’re able to produce the best sustainable and profitable companies and organizations possible.
Why?
3. ‘Not discouraging’ women isn’t enough - actively encourage them.
Again, why?
I don't understand this "get women in X" movement. There are women everywhere, women are doing fine from what I can see in the tech space.
Why must I go out of my way to specifically pave a way for women in everything I do?
Why not blacks? Why not midgets? Why not "X deviation from being a while male?"
Read my previous comment history for my stance as I'm not going to copy paste everything here. I honestly don't get it. You have all the same opportunities men do, at least in this space.
Women are so entitled nowadays.
Re: Paul Graham Isn't Keeping Women out of Tech
#4This article seems to be related to http://valleywag.gawker.com/paul-graham-says-women-havent-be... It is the first time I saw Paul Graham appear on my Facebook. It is not worth reading, the author is just going for clicks by making baseless accusations. Paul also claims he was misquoted and thinks he should start bringing a recorder to interviews. It is a shame, one of the appeals of reading a Paul Graham interview…
It should be noted that the misquote was on The Information's end, not Valleywag.
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#5Why has tumblr become such a cesspool of social justice warriors just aching to find something to be angry about?
How does the Tumblr owner feel about his platform being used by this toxic community?
Re: Paul Graham Isn't Keeping Women out of Tech
#6This article seems to be related to http://valleywag.gawker.com/paul-graham-says-women-havent-be... It is the first time I saw Paul Graham appear on my Facebook. It is not worth reading, the author is just going for clicks by making baseless accusations. Paul also claims he was misquoted and thinks he should start bringing a recorder to interviews. It is a shame, one of the appeals of reading a Paul Graham interview…
Seeing how badly people reacted on Twitter, I don't see any upside for anybody to say anything about this issue at all. Which probably won't help matters much…
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#7But that doesn’t give us free reign to ignore the problems that exist in universities, accelerators, tech companies and venture capital. These pieces of the funnel need to be thoroughly analyzed and optimized for inclusion - be it for gender, race, age, or other markers, so that we’re able to produce the best sustainable and profitable companies and organizations possible. Why? 3. ‘Not discouraging’ women isn’t enoug…
It's just a fad in the US.
Re: Paul Graham Isn't Keeping Women out of Tech
#8This article seems to be related to http://valleywag.gawker.com/paul-graham-says-women-havent-be... It is the first time I saw Paul Graham appear on my Facebook. It is not worth reading, the author is just going for clicks by making baseless accusations. Paul also claims he was misquoted and thinks he should start bringing a recorder to interviews. It is a shame, one of the appeals of reading a Paul Graham interview…
> It is the first time I saw Paul Graham appear on my Facebook
Amazing times we live in, isn't it? If this is how the average person finds out who someone like PG is, what hope is there for the world at large?
Please note that had PG been known through standard mass-media channels way earlier, there might have been even a fighting chance that more women (i.e. outsiders) had joined the tech world early on, since this way the news about YC wouldn't spread through what are predominantly male/engineering-graduate-heavy word-of-mouth channels, and we would have avoided this mess in the first place. Yet the press and the world at large is not even interested in the success of something like YC until the YC is big enough to throw rocks at because of some juicy inclusion/exclusion controversy. So what we have is a controversy that, like hundreds of others like it, is nearly "manufactured" by the press itself.
The moment you become big is the moment you become torn apart by the world.
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#9Gawker was just looking for page views [1], as with the pg racism [2] claim a few months ago.
This is dangerous. If people are scared to speak openly and honestly about topics such as racism, homelessness and sexism because they don't want Valleywag to label them as racist, elitist or sexist, we'll all be forced to just go on pretending everything is great.
[1] http://pando.com/2013/12/26/look-whos-gawking-inside-nick-de...
[2] http://valleywag.gawker.com/major-fwd-us-donor-says-a-strong...
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#10This article seems to be related to http://valleywag.gawker.com/paul-graham-says-women-havent-be... It is the first time I saw Paul Graham appear on my Facebook. It is not worth reading, the author is just going for clicks by making baseless accusations. Paul also claims he was misquoted and thinks he should start bringing a recorder to interviews. It is a shame, one of the appeals of reading a Paul Graham interview…
Having the full interview behind a $400 paywall doesn't help anyone evaluate his words "in context."