@ShaftGood Leaders Don’t Buy and Sell People. Even HypotheticallyA Google Senior Vice President and one of Google’s first 10 employees recently tweeted:Mar 25, 20221Mar 25, 20221
@ShaftInequality is Everywhere in Tech. And Tech is ok with it.Every year, for the past 4 years, Silicon Valley goes on their penance tour of carefully selected media outlets to tell their diversity and…Aug 15, 20184Aug 15, 20184
@ShaftThe #TechHearings Thoughts from my time in Product Safety at TwitterI created the Product Safety and Security Team at Twitter. At different points in time I was responsible for the engineering of tools to…Nov 1, 20173Nov 1, 20173
@ShaftTech’s Term Sheets of HarassmentLet’s address tech’s culture of harassment instead of its harassersJul 6, 20172Jul 6, 20172
@ShaftThe Legacy of Uber’s Absent LeadershipI 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…Jun 26, 2017Jun 26, 2017
@ShaftA Black Man Walks Into the San Francisco CTO Summit…On May 8th, 2017, at precisely 11:41am, I walked on stage at the San Francisco CTO Summit to give a talk.May 10, 20173May 10, 20173
@ShaftLiving the NightmareI 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…May 3, 20172May 3, 20172
@ShaftI’m Calling it Black.On Friday September 16th, unarmed #TerrenceCrutcher was shot and killed by police…Sep 20, 20161Sep 20, 20161
@ShaftTranscending RaceYesterday, The Greatest of all Time passed away. As the media covers his passing with headlines like ‘Ali Transcended Race’, I paused to…Jun 4, 2016Jun 4, 2016