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Name a giant in this industry, that person benefitted from a liberal arts education.

• thatonechad 9y ago
  I'm sure all the gender studies classes has helped the vast majority of tech students become better developers
  • s73ver_ 9y ago
    Given all the stuff that's happening lately with people like Susan Fowler, a whole lot of developers could have benefitted from more of those. Of course, that's completely ignoring that there is far, far, far more to "liberal arts" than gender studies.
    • hobofan 9y ago
      I think it's more the people around them that would have benefitted from it.
      • s73ver_ 9y ago
        That too. Everyone would benefit!
    • Klockan 9y ago
      Diversity training doesn't work though and it often makes things worse. https://hbr.org/2012/03/diversity-training-doesnt-work https://hbr.org/2012/03/diversity-training-doesnt-work
      • somebehemoth 9y ago
        You will need more citations to prove that point. Same publication, more recently published, "Two Types of Diversity Training That Really Work". "For one, a recent meta-analysis of over 40 years of diversity training evaluations showed that diversity training can work, especially when it targets awareness and skill development and occurs over a significant period of time." https://hbr.org/2017/07/two-types-of-diversity-training-that-really-work https://hbr.org/2017/07/two-types-of-diversity-training-that...
• petra 9y ago
  Are we training giants now ?
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• KC8ZKF 9y ago
  Steve Jobs
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