A Google Senior Vice President and one of Google’s first 10 employees recently tweeted: And while this has gotten a lot of press and been rightly criticized, my experience with this person in 2018 at Google eerily echoed this tweet. At Google almost all hires have to be signed off…

As #BlackHistoryMonth winds down, I was reminded with how pernicious #whiteness can be. This reminder was delivered during an online conversation with one of the co-founders of Arbo Works (and a former Googler). In re-telling his story of a Dr. Dre concert in the 90s he wrote in a post…

By now most people are aware of the the post World War II confessional “First They Came For” It has struck many people that the police can lawfully (I use that word ironically) break into a home, kill Breonna Taylor and have no charges levied against them. …

White people of america, take a moment to reflect on the reality that many of you have and continue to witness black people brutalized and killed for the better part of a the last decade. A decade of Black People being brutalized and your indifference to it. #YouAreComplicit As I…

My father died this past week after suffering injuries in a fire at his home. His death is as tragic as his life. Yet it has afforded me time and space to reflect on his influence and impact over the course of my life. …

Every year, for the past 4 years, Silicon Valley goes on their penance tour of carefully selected media outlets to tell their diversity and inclusion stories. The reports are carefully crafted to avoid apples to apples comparison with EE-01s and other tech companies. …

I created the Product Safety and Security Team at Twitter. At different points in time I was responsible for the engineering of tools to mitigate Abuse, Compromised Accounts and the Login Infrastructure up to and including 2 Factor Authentication and Password Reset. …

Silicon Valley is coming to terms with courageous women sharing their painful and disturbing experiences of sexist, misogynistic behavior and unwanted advances of Venture Capitalists like Justin Caldbeck, Marc Canter, and Dave McClure. …

I read that there is a petition circulating at Uber to bring Travis back. For for those petitioning for it, I have a small piece of advice: Take your heads out of your collective asses. Uber employees are circulating a petition to ask the board to let Travis Kalanick return Employees have internally and publicly voiced their discontent with Kalanick's resignation.www.recode.net Travis is not and was never a leader. I won’t bore you with what I…