Good developers are good because they make everyone around them

better.

Hello!

#actually

(story time)

Allow me to reintroduce myself

Allow me to reintroduce myself

My nameBryan Liles

@bryanl

@digitalocean

Tech has come so far, but it has so far to go.

I’m BLACK

I’m BLACK in America

Yes, Society Does Have It Out For You

Non-BLACKS Don’t Want You To Win

BLACKS Don’t Want YOU to Win

How To Win At School

Getting Your First Job

1. How a BLACK Male can succeed

2. How a BLACK Male can succeed

3. How a BLACK Male can succeed

What’s next for BLACK males?

I’m BLACK, how can I help?

I’m not BLACK, how can I help?

I must confess that over the last few years I have

been gravely disappointed with the

white moderate

who is more devoted to

"order" than to justice

who prefers a

negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive

peace which is the presence of justice

"I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods

of direct action;"

who paternalistically feels he can set the timetable

for another man's freedom;

who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the

Negro to wait until a "more convenient season.”

Martin Luther King Letter from a Birmingham Jail

Diversity

I feel like a bean

The industry has attempted to embrace diversity

I’m not checkbox filling

I don’t want your diversity

Where I come from

diversity = integration?

Let’s try a new word

Inclusion

inclusion |inˈklo͞oZHən| noun

1 the action or state of including or of being included within a group or structure

We want to belong

As an ethnicminority I want…

I want….

more than a diverse workplace

I want….

not a another twitter#hashtag

I want….

to belong

to belong

the mythical 10xdeveloper

the real 10xdeveloper

there isn’t afinish line

value in being ateam member

^——- This guy thanks you!

Bryan Liles@bryanl

@digitalocean

The End.