> This never sits right with me. Diversity for the sake of diversity. This is the entire debate of affirmative action, and people come down on both sides for v

> This never sits right with me. Diversity for the sake of diversity. This is the entire debate of affirmative action, and people come down on both sides for valid and unquantifiable reasons. Another way to think about it is to recognize that you have an unconscious bias for people that look and think like you do. A big problem with tech geeks is that see themselves as being unbiased and objective in all things (eg. meritocracy, best argument wins, etc), and so ironically they are more susceptible to rationalizing their own biases. So acknowledge you're not omniscient, recognize the bias, and consciously counteract it by giving people who are different for whatever the benefit of the doubt. I have often profited dramatically from hearing someone out who at first seemed to hold crazy untenable ideas.