Female Contemporary Mentors of Mine
In response to my post, Contemporary Mentors, a female reader of this blog who often sends me notes when I fall into a pattern of highlighting cis-het-white men, responded directly
Bias
Bias: At-Home Film Screening Event
Amy and I, along with Techstars, were Executive Producers for Robin Hauser‘s film “bias“. It’s an extremely helpful documentary around understanding unconscious bias. When Robi
Writing More About Women
Following is an abridged email that showed up in my inbox recently that caused me to stop and think for a few minutes. I took a look back through your
Robin Hauser's Film Bias at the Boulder International Film Festival 2019
Amy and I are long-time supporters of the Boulder International Film Festival. The 2019 festival starts soon and runs from February 28 to March 3rd. Bias, one of the documentaries
Implicit Gender Bias in Startup Funding
While there have been many words written about gender bias in the context of entrepreneurship and funding, I thought the following TED Talk from Dana Kanze presented one of the
Bias Documentary
One of the philanthropic activities that Amy and I have been doing is helping fund documentaries around issues that we care about. A breakout documentary from 2015 was CODE: Debugging
Unscramble Your Biases
As I noticed quotes from the Code Conference dominate my Twitter feed yesterday, I saw a few from the Jeff Bezos interview that made me say out loud “Jeff Bezos is
The Toxicity of Arrogance
Last night Amy and I saw Closed Circuit. We both walked out of there completely bummed out. It was a good movie, but the arrogance of some government agencies (in
Racism in Tech
There was a huge kerfluffle over the weekend about racism in Silicon Valley which tried to end when Michael Arrington wrote a post titled Oh Shit, I’m A Racist. But