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The teams in the Manhattan project, the Apollo project, the inventors of the transistor, the guys who designed the Hoover dam, who wrote Doom, etc. etc. etc. etc. were not very diverse.

You might not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.



They were "not very diverse" teams but actually did have minorities in them, and those ones truly deserved their positions.


It seems like you’re using the achievements of white men as some kind of odd way to put down the achievements of people who aren’t men. They’re “peak performance” but everyone else isn’t, is that what you’re implying?

Ever heard of Ada Lovelace?

Grace Hopper, inventor of the compiler?

Katherine Johnson, who performed the calculations for John Glenn's Friendship 7 orbital flight, also did some calculations for the Apollo 11 and Apollo 13 missions.

Margaret Hamilton, who created the term “software engineer” among other accomplishments as a computer programmer for the Apollo project.

Adele Goldberg, part of the team who developed Smalltalk.

You brought up Doom, so I’ll bring up the creative director of Uncharted series Amy Hennig, Kim Swift the game designer for Portal, Shannon Loftis at Microsoft, Ellen Beeman game designer for the Wing Commander series…




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