Will the Real Technical People Please Stand Up?
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Will the Real Technical People
Please Stand Up?@lhawthorn - Eurucamp 2015
mikecogh
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$PERSON
isn’t
TECHNICAL
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My Parents*
* Not Drawn to Scale
thedailyenglishshow
Unix Programmer Learned to use the ATM when I was 14
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© D. Taranik used with permission
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What does $PERSON isn’t TECHNICAL
even mean?
see also its ugly relatives: “not very technical” and “not technical enough” and “not as technical as $SOMEONE_JUST_LIKE_ME”
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Does It Mean ….
• Doesn’t have a university degree in Computer Science or Engineering of some sort?
• Doesn’t write code? (Or doesn’t do it for their career?)
• Can’t solder and has no idea what thermal compound is?
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$PERSON isn’t TECHNICALimplies some kind of immutable binary
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hape_gera
This phrase is toxic.
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This phrase is code for…
• “I don’t have to challenge my own biases”
• “The work $PERSON performs is much less valueable than my own work”
• “$PERSON is a woman / person of color / not enough like me to ‘fit in’”
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This phrase prevents us from …
• Having better educated and more empowered colleagues
• Fully respecting the value of our team mates
• Having more effective collaboration throughout our organizations and projects
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Why would I stay in an industry
that defines me by what I can’t do instead of all the things I can do?
Read awesome things by Kara: http://bit.ly/AlcoholAndInclusivity Kara’s Twitter bio pic used with permission
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86979666@N00
Thank You!
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Further Reading & Legal Bits• Fantastic related article:
The Myth of the Non-Technical Startup Employee (http://bit.ly/MythNon-TechEmployee
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