Look at diversity as something to be accumulated over a career. Would you rather hire the 40-year-old developer who's worked at one position in one company for

Look at diversity as something to be accumulated over a career. Would you rather hire the 40-year-old developer who's worked at one position in one company for the last 20 years, or the 40-year-old developer who's worked at 20 positions at 20 companies for the past 20 years? Who's going to be better able to adapt quickly to your company's problems? Who's going to be able to teach you some new tricks? So much of what makes us good at what we do is learning from others. If you limit the kinds of others you learn from, you do your trade skills a disservice. Diversity doesn't need a skin color or a gender or an age- it comes from each new contributor to a project. We just often, as human beings, find it more uncomfortable to get somebody new who's not like us, than go with the obvious "culture fit". To get to the kernel of the question, the more people you learn from, the fewer forms of lazy-minded sloppy coding you'll tolerate from yourself and others. If diversity is a variable, then quality experience is its integral.