” The tax on being different is largely implicit. People need not act maliciously for it to be levied. In fact, at its heart is a laudable sentiment: ‘prove it to me.’ The problem is that we are requiring different levels of proof without realising it. “
” Human behavior is an enormously complex set of things, and that mixture of underlying things is different for different people, so it’s not just complex, it’s meta-complex. “
” We are bad at valuing other people, and we are worse the more different they are than us. “
” I want to literally make people smarter by jamming things in their brains. “
” The traditional markers people use for hiring can be wrong – profoundly wrong. “
” Once you identify the intrinsically motivated people, you realize that fancy degrees can actually be a negative – that some of the people who have them are more focused on how others perceive them. “
” Before I came out, people always asked me math questions. But once I became a woman, they stopped. There’s unintended discrimination. “
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