<story><title>Silicon Valley Could Learn a Lot From Skater Culture, Just Not Meritocracy</title><url>http://www.wired.com/2015/02/silicon-valley-thinks-can-learn-skater-culture-terrible-idea</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>smoyer</author><text>Gasp! I knew girls with hair like that ... and I hung out with girls that skated (and did BMX and gymnastics).  Judged by the timing, I must be about the same age as Ms. Siera and it&amp;#x27;s kind of an amazing parallel universe in some ways (I had an injury I never recovered from enough to return to the so-called &amp;quot;extreme sports&amp;quot;).&lt;p&gt;In any case, I&amp;#x27;m old (yeah ... I said it) now and definitely agree that we need more diversity in our tech work-places.  We have an additional problem as our applicant pool is extremely homogeneous.  How do we fix that?</text></comment>
<story><title>Silicon Valley Could Learn a Lot From Skater Culture, Just Not Meritocracy</title><url>http://www.wired.com/2015/02/silicon-valley-thinks-can-learn-skater-culture-terrible-idea</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chapel</author><text>Having read the post, I feel the title here doesn&amp;#x27;t do it justice. It is also missing half of the title.&lt;p&gt;Title on HN at time of comment: &amp;quot;Silicon Valley Could Learn a Lot from Skater Culture&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;As far as the article, I wasn&amp;#x27;t aware of the schism in the 80s  around skateboarding culture. I was too young, but even looking back through documentaries and other media about the history, it seems to have been revised to ignore it.&lt;p&gt;I think the article is overall positive, in that there are things to learn so long as we don&amp;#x27;t ignore the context and the bad side of what has happened in the past.</text></comment>