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Vivienne Ming Quotes

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Discrimination is not done by villains. It's done by us.

Discrimination Done Us Villains

What drives success, and the most successful students, is internal motivation.

Success Motivation Successful Most

Human behavior is an enormously complex set of things, and that mixture of underlying things is different for different people, so it's not just complex, it's meta-complex.

People Behavior Human Behavior Human

The tax on being different is massive.

Being Different Tax Being Different

AI might be a powerful technology, but things won't get better simply by adding AI.

Technology Better Powerful Things AI

In 1958, my father graduated from secondary school as the highest-achieving student in the state of Kansas, earning a five-year scholarship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He turned it down. For someone raised in a remote farming town, this would have been his opportunity to transform his life, a ticket to a bigger world.

Life Father Technology Opportunity

Because of the tax on being different, individual actors in the labour market from different backgrounds can rationally value the same opportunities differently.

Value Being Different Opportunities

I want to literally make people smarter by jamming things in their brains.

People Want Things Brains Smarter

The traditional markers people use for hiring can be wrong - profoundly wrong.

People Wrong Hiring Traditional Use

It's important to me that talking about my experience not undermine those who choose differently. There can be a stigma for people who don't take the path I did, as though not having surgery means you're not really transitioning. No one should feel as though it's everything or nothing.

Path Experience People Me Talking

If you have a diverse workforce, then you have a much better chance of picking up on things that a lack of diversity would hide from them.

Diversity Chance Better You Hide Up

The tax on being different is largely implicit. People need not act maliciously for it to be levied. In fact, at its heart is a laudable sentiment: 'prove it to me.' The problem is that we are requiring different levels of proof without realising it.

Heart People Me Being Different Tax

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