How Can We Achieve Age Diversity in Silicon Valley?

Re:How Can We Achieve Age Diversity in Silicon Valley? by zo1 on Monday October 19, 2015 @09:16PM (#10416874)

Indeed, I find it a big red flag when I hear mention of "efforts" to reduce homogeneity. Frankly, any mention of any "social engineering" terms is a big red flag for me.

The only thing that matters is professionalism, work-ethic, and skillset (and my personal favorites, politeness and personal-space respect).

Age, race, gender, nationality should not matter in any way for hiring decisions. But then again, I fall into the "leave it be" side of human freedom and anti-discrimination efforts, rather than the "let's meddle and try fix it with reverse-effects" camp.

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Re:How Can We Achieve Age Diversity in Silicon Valley? by panglott on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @08:50AM (#10418801)

People who are all alike tend to have the same blindspots. If you have a group with different POVs, they can more easily catch things that others might miss. Race/gender/age/&c.-related blind spots may be more important in some domains than others, but these blind spots are very salient in a wide variety of places in American life.

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