"This is why I personally care about diversity: it’s the canary in the coal mine for meritocracy. When we see extremely skewed demographics, we have very good reason to suspect that something is wrong with our selection process, that it’s not actually as meritocratic as it could be. And I believe that is exactly what is happening in Silicon Valley."
Bravo, Eric Ries.
Readers of this blog will recognize a lot of the matter-of-fact common sense points here - Ries is not saying anything new. He’s just the one saying it. That matters. A lot.
Read this.
