Fight the Monoculture!
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Fight the Monoculture! a pseudo-scientific case for promoting artificial selection in the software industry (in a dozen or so slides) Dan Buch @ Columbus Code Camp 2010 Licensed Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike
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Diversity isn't something one should be promoting out of a sense of responsibility or guilt. Diversity is one of the most critical measures of a social group's health and viability. By taking cues from the fields of evolutionary biology, sociology and economics, the software industry can be advanced into a new (and exciting!) era of creative problem-solving.Not doing so may result in catastrophic failure.
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Fight the Monoculture!a pseudo-scientific case for promoting
artificial selection in the software industry
(in a dozen or so slides)
Dan Buch @ Columbus Code Camp 2010Licensed Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike
What Problem?
How to Become Extinct
Current Tools
DIVERSITY TRAININGnot exactly motivational poster material
Action Items
Learn from the Amish
Find New Peers
Find the Next Generation
Be Nice
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Dan Buch @ Columbus Code Camp 2010Licensed Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike
Fight the Monoculture!