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Work in Progress 3/x
Reviewing our diversity & inclusion
About two weeks ago we started looking hard at how we are handling diversity & inclusion in our three publications, Better Humans, Better Marketing, Better Programming.
I generally love working on diversity and don’t understand why so many people focus on how hard it is. Work is hard, this is not any harder. Plus it tends to pay off quickly, is interesting, improves the product, makes a profit.
I’m sometimes embarrassed to also say “It’s the right thing to do!” just because the other self-serving benefits are so large.
That said, the three notes below are an inverse shit sandwich that are ordered hard, easy, hard. But neither of the “hard” notes were any harder than other hard things I’ve done at work.
Please pat me on the back
I’m talking to a lot of white people who are trying to improve, trying to work in more inclusive ways, trying to figure out what it means to be anti-racist at work.
We’re all saying that this work is triggering a strong response within ourselves to want to be praised.
For example, I kicked off our own review at work with a pretty thoughtful memo about why diversity matters, which areas seemed ripe for improvement, and how we could…
