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163: Cause A Scene with Kim Crayton
01:24 - Kim’s Superpower: Being a Black Woman in Tech with a Strategy and a Platform.
02:21 - Continuously Validating Your Space as a Black Woman
- Technical vs. Technology
- Kamala Harris Suspending Her Campaign
- Inclusion, Diversity, and Business Strategy
08:10 - The System was Built to Harm and Oppress Black Women
- Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing
- Stacey Abrams
- F*ck Civility
- White People are on a Spectrum of Racist
- Ibram Kendi: How To Be an Antiracist
- Black People Cannot be Racist
15:42 - The Only Power Black People Have is the Power Whiteness Has Given Them
- Capitalism, Communism, Marxism, Socialism are Theories Rooted in White Supremacy
21:24 - White Feminism is Bullsh*t
- White Women are Now the Default Diversity in Tech
25:50 - Being a Strategist
- Influencing Small to Medium Sized Business
- Making Meaningful Impactful Change in Tech
33:15 - #causeascene
35:41 - Price Asymmetry
36:48 - Kim’s Six-Step Process
40:15 - Stop Looking for Simple Solutions to Complex Problems
- Defining Racism Beyond the Dictionary Definition
44:29 - Future of Jobs Report from World Economic Forum
45:55 - Strategies for Developing Your Other Technical Skills
48:15 - Bounded Rationality
- Facts Change, Truth Remains the Same
- Collaboration Over Competition
52:10 - Can We Have Antiracist Capitalism?
01:00:59 - Defining Racism
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Special Guest: Kim Crayton.