Meredith Whittaker

Most of the infrastructure in the tech ecosystem now assumes that as a given. And then we have to rewrite things too.

Yeah. Well, I'm going to just flip that to be a little bit rhetorical and say those assumptions negate the human right to private, intimate communication. And we are trying to rebuild a tech ecosystem that actually honors those.

Yeah. Well, I'm going to just flip that to be a little bit rhetorical and say those assumptions negate the human right to private, intimate communication. And we are trying to rebuild a tech ecosystem that actually honors those.

Yeah. Well, I'm going to just flip that to be a little bit rhetorical and say those assumptions negate the human right to private, intimate communication. And we are trying to rebuild a tech ecosystem that actually honors those.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Um, I don't have one of those stories where I'm like an Atari. I was four. I'm a hacker. I didn't care about tech, Quatech. I wasn't. You remember back in school, there were two kinds of nerds. There were the math nerds and the book nerds.

Um, I don't have one of those stories where I'm like an Atari. I was four. I'm a hacker. I didn't care about tech, Quatech. I wasn't. You remember back in school, there were two kinds of nerds. There were the math nerds and the book nerds.

Um, I don't have one of those stories where I'm like an Atari. I was four. I'm a hacker. I didn't care about tech, Quatech. I wasn't. You remember back in school, there were two kinds of nerds. There were the math nerds and the book nerds.

I was a book nerd. But in the story we tell now, because nerddom has been overlapped with monetary success and sort of a career in math and science, I think we forget about the book nerds. But hello, I'm here to remind you.

I was a book nerd. But in the story we tell now, because nerddom has been overlapped with monetary success and sort of a career in math and science, I think we forget about the book nerds. But hello, I'm here to remind you.

I was a book nerd. But in the story we tell now, because nerddom has been overlapped with monetary success and sort of a career in math and science, I think we forget about the book nerds. But hello, I'm here to remind you.

And that's who I was. And so I studied literature and rhetoric at Berkeley, which I just thought were, I mean, they're still beguiling. Like being able to read and write is pretty fundamental for anything. And then I was poor. So I took a job at Google because they were the first ones to offer me a job. And then I got very fascinated with what on earth was going on.

And that's who I was. And so I studied literature and rhetoric at Berkeley, which I just thought were, I mean, they're still beguiling. Like being able to read and write is pretty fundamental for anything. And then I was poor. So I took a job at Google because they were the first ones to offer me a job. And then I got very fascinated with what on earth was going on.

And that's who I was. And so I studied literature and rhetoric at Berkeley, which I just thought were, I mean, they're still beguiling. Like being able to read and write is pretty fundamental for anything. And then I was poor. So I took a job at Google because they were the first ones to offer me a job. And then I got very fascinated with what on earth was going on.

July 10th, 2006. So I graduated Berkeley and I needed rent money and I put my resume on monster.com, which is a precursor to LinkedIn. And they reached out and then I talked to my friend Michelangelo because at the time... You still needed an invite to join Gmail, as I recall.

July 10th, 2006. So I graduated Berkeley and I needed rent money and I put my resume on monster.com, which is a precursor to LinkedIn. And they reached out and then I talked to my friend Michelangelo because at the time... You still needed an invite to join Gmail, as I recall.

July 10th, 2006. So I graduated Berkeley and I needed rent money and I put my resume on monster.com, which is a precursor to LinkedIn. And they reached out and then I talked to my friend Michelangelo because at the time... You still needed an invite to join Gmail, as I recall.

And I was like, hey, Michelangelo, can you get me an invite so I can make a Gmail address so I can appeal to this recruiter? And now my spam-filled Gmail address dates from that moment. So I was hired as something called a customer operations associate. And I didn't know what that was. No one knows what that is. It's just a bunch of words. But it sounded I was like, that's a business job.