I'm of the school of thought that the tech industry should absolutely take affirmative steps to encourage and make it possible for people with a wider set of skills and backgrounds to enter and do well in tech. At the same time we have to accept that people and roles are different. I work with a lot of engineers. I also work with a lot of PR people and, especially at agencies, they conform to at least as much of a demographic/behavioral stereotype as software developers do.
Re:Confessions of a Failed Female Coder
by skinnymuch on Monday October 09, 2017 @12:42PM
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Nice response. Definitely agree. Cool that you know first hand that other industries are just as bad. Which isn't surprising.
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I recently learned guitar for the first time using one of those Guitar Hero games but you play with a real electric guitar. Two friends commented how if I haven't gotten to learning it after multiple attempts, gamification won't work. But it did. This isn't the first time gamification has worked on me. For whatever reason, gamification [and accountability] work[s] great for me.