James Damore talks with Dave Rael about diversity, understanding, discourse, psychology, and differences
Chapters:
- - The story of James, the "Google Manifesto Guy"
- - James on unconscious bias
- - Biological essentialism
- - Humility
- - Sources of psychological differences between men and women
- - Troublesome vocabulary and individual interest in software
- - The nature of software development
- - James on the value of diversity
- - Psychological safety
- - Growth mindset and asking for what you need
- - Efficacy of diversity programs
- - Disadvantages of diversity programs
- - Support and interactions
- - Judgment and de-moralizing diversity
- - Alienation of conservatives
- - Hostile work environments and a call for understanding
- - Psychological traits and troublesome vocabulary
- - James's suggestion to de-emphasize empathy
- - Conscientiousness and green-field (building new systems) vs brown-field (maintaining existing systems) in software development
- - Discrimination
- - Downsides of being a "diversity candidate"
- - Gender bias in hiring - also the difficulty of choosing science papers
- - Understanding for the experiences of others
- - James's experience with the response to his document
- - A lawsuit toward Google
- - Going to the source
Resources:
- James's Site
- The Document in Question
- Implicit-association test
- Jordan Peterson
- James on the Rubin Report
- James on the Joe Rogan Experience
- Dave's Software Developer Podcast - Developer On Fire
- Pair programming
- Psychological safety
- Mindset: The New Psychology of Success - Carol S. Dweck
- Expectations of brilliance underlie gender distributions across academic disciplines - Sarah-Jane Leslie, Andrei Cimpian, Meredith Meyer, Edward Freeland
- A Way to Detect Bias - Paul Graham
- Matthew 7:15-20 - "You Will Know Them by Their Fruits"
- Virtue Signaling
- Big Five personality traits
- Paul Bloom
- Paul Bloom on Waking Up with Sam Harris - The Virtues of Cold Blood
- Thaddeus Russell - The Unregistered Podcast
- Glenn Loury on Unregistered with Thaddeus Russell
- James on Freedomain Radio with Stefan Molyneux
- James with Jordan Peterson