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>>Consider it like getting an advice on getting into a good college from someone who got in using Affirmative Action vs someone who didn't. A better analogy wo
by smtddr 13y ago
>>Consider it like getting an advice on getting into a good college from someone who got in using Affirmative Action vs someone who didn't.
A better analogy would be considering someone getting into a good college because of their connections & wealthy parents vs someone who didn't.
- JohnHaugeland 13y ago"A better analogy would be considering someone getting into a good college because of their connections & wealthy parents vs someone who didn't." In that case, isn't it absolutely imperative to start making those connections, by not demographically binning mentors? Connections don't just spring out of nowhere.
- smtddr 13y ago>>Connections don't just spring out of nowhere. I don't want to go too far down the rabbit hole here because I know where this is leading to from past experience on HN, but.... I think in the tech-scene(probably society in general) some of those connections are easier made(and sometimes come as default) depending on gender/race.
- JohnHaugeland 13y agoI am confused. You don't want to make those connections early by arrangement, because they would be more difficult to make later on voluntarily?