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Googlers that were around when Vic Gundotra was a big player love trashing him. I was surprised when this blog described him in mixed and maybe even positive terms.

Making tech and gaming more inclusive for women isn’t something that just benefits women — as your comment shows it can benefit men as well.

> He explained that "Nobel despised people who cared more about profits than society's well-being", saying that "There is nothing to indicate that he would have wanted such a prize", and that the association with the Nobel prizes is "a PR coup by economists to improve their reputation".

To be fair I would definitely consider Goldin’s work the kind of work that improves society and hence that Nobel would want awarded.

Humans have three sets of tooth buds, the third of which most people never use. The version of this treatment for adults would grow this last set.

Humans have 3 sets of tooth buds. Most people never use the third set. For adults this treatment would aim to regrow the third set.

I think it’s because focusing on the pipeline problem focuses on the parts of hiring that a company doesn’t have control over. Those decisions often happen in high school and tech companies don’t have direct influence in these decisions.

Instead, companies are better off focusing on making the later parts of the pipeline less leaky. Minorities tend to leave tech at a higher rate than average due to factors the company has some control over.

The quote from the spokesperson at the very end really makes me think that this situation might stranger than it seems:

In a statement to The Post, a spokesman for Miller denied the accusations against his client. “This lawsuit is a fictional account of events filled with numerous falsehoods, fabricated by a disgruntled ex-employee, who was senior to Ms. Miller at Google,” the spokesman said. “Ms. Miller never made any ‘advance’ toward Mr. Olohan, which witnesses can readily corroborate.”

Yes, this is exactly the pattern you see in the r/c25k subreddit. Lots of people hit a wall (usually around week 5 or 6, where you start running for longer stretches of time) because they’re running too fast. The most unintuitive part of this program is pacing yourself.

> In 2022 I kind of just assume the world is fairly gender-less in most respects

Given that women’s participation in the labor force in the US passed 50% in the 1970s (well within living memory!), this is pretty optimistic :)