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The Musings of a Black Man in Tech

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Aug 15, 2018

Inequality is Everywhere in Tech. And Tech is ok with it.

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Nov 1, 2017

The #TechHearings Thoughts from my time in Product Safety at Twitter

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…

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Jul 6, 2017

Tech’s Term Sheets of Harassment

Let’s address tech’s culture of harassment instead of its harassers

Silicon Valley is coming to terms with courageous women sharing their painful and disturbing experiences of sexist, misogynistic…

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Jun 26, 2017

The Legacy of Uber’s Absent Leadership

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.

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May 10, 2017

A Black Man Walks Into the San Francisco CTO Summit…

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May 3, 2017

Living the Nightmare

I woke up at 4:30 am this morning from a nightmare. In this nightmare, I was pulled over by the police, handcuffed, arrested and taken to jail. No reason for the arrest was given. While in jail, I was subjected to invasive searches and told I would be given an injection but not told what it…

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Sep 20, 2016

I’m Calling it Black.

On Friday September 16th, unarmed #TerrenceCrutcher was shot and killed by police…

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Jun 4, 2016

Transcending Race

Yesterday, The Greatest of all Time passed away. As the media covers his passing with headlines like ‘Ali Transcended Race’, I paused to think about what that really means. Ali did not transcend race, he forced white america to transcend it’s beliefs about race, culture and identity, and inspired…

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