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Adolfo and Greg talk about the IDEO diversity, the Compassion of Buffer and Spot for Sale Sponsor/Partners/Events: Check out our new Patreon page at patreon.com/nerdstalker PayPal donations to https://paypal.me/foronda Stories of the week I sent an email to IDEO about the long-standing racism in the design industry and they wrote me back. eBay Execs Thought Sending Dead Pigs, Live Spiders To Small News Website Was A Good Idea https://buff.ly/2YIEtQC Tech company Buffer is adopting a 4-day workweek https://buff.ly/3dcSZ8O In defense on working at the office https://t.co/qJlZefNbo5?amp=1 “Speed” Round : The FBI used a Philly protester’s Etsy profile, LinkedIn, and other internet history to charge her with setting police cars ablaze https://buff.ly/2YIzM9z Now any US business can buy Boston Dynamics’ Spot robot for $74,500 https://buff.ly/3foihlE Colin Kaepernick joins board of Medium https://buff.ly/30UFCrl Silicon V...

Local Wise Teams up with Berkeley to Address Diversity in Startups Courtesy of Localwise Diversity in the startup space is an interesting topic where commonly there is data from the EEOC and others but that is with huge organizations. Even amongst big organizations, the underrepresented has held rather steady over the last 10 years according to the EEOC  data.  It is difficult as a startup to focus on this as their priority is product development and organizational development takes a back seat.  With startups, diversity data is difficult to be had - very small, distributed and portable teams. 500 Startups has even called  "Diversity Debt" akin to debt developed by engineering poor quality technology. The article claims that at employee #4 if you haven't thought about your diversity hiring strategy it will be almost difficult if not impossible to recover.  We interview, Ben Hamlin, co-founder of Localwise , who is co-hosting a job fair on January 28 ...