Recognize that, while extremely beneficial, diversity-in-tech work exacts an emotional and mental toll on the well-being of the people who do it.

How did we become so invisible, irrecoverable stats in dreary headline after dreary headline? And what would be possible if we weren’t?

The open-mindedness that permits very young people to succeed in tech goes out the window when it comes to the other end of the age spectrum.

Giving access to a tool as powerful as code creates social change and spurs economic mobility for those who have not shared equally in the rewards of the technological renaissance.

My experiences call into question what we can do better to make more Latinos successful in tech.

I weigh the challenges we face against the spirit of our group. We embrace our blackness, we love black identity, and we are proud to be coders.

Liberalism’s inherent racism.

The commoditization of diversity in tech.

Having more white women attendees at a conference this year than last is hardly diverse, and hardly a reason to celebrate diversity when Black people and Latinxs still make up only 5% of people in tech.

Most “get into tech” programs are only accessible to computer science students and rich people. The rest of us are left behind.