The Diversity of your team is a feature
Hey friends, so I am at ski resort in Utah right now and they have this
kind of a funny story that in the bathroom they have the urinals covered up
like every other one covered up for social distancing and a few weeks ago
when I brought my son up here he needed to use the bathroom and all of the
and he's he's kind of small so normal he just uses the pot but all of the
those were being used and he really needed to go and so I was going to.
Have him use the urinal but they covered up the only small or short urinal
so they because they covered up every other one they just happened to cover
up the only short one and so I I ripped off the garbage bag that was tied
on to it and so he could go but it just made me think like the the this is
has something to do with like accessibility and the importance of diversity
in your team because I imagine that the the person who is assigned to cover
those up like they didn't tell them which ones to cover up they just
covered it they chose one and they did every other one and it just happened
to cover.
Up the the shorter one but if they'd been apparent then maybe they were a
parent of small children or something then maybe they would have thought oh
let's make sure we keep this one uncovered so that smaller or shorter as
smaller children are shorter people can use this one and that's the sort of
thing that you just miss out on if you don't have a diverse team so I I
think that is like it's kind of a silly example, but it is an example of a
situation where having a broader set of experiences on your team can expose
you to more needs that.
Your users might have and so yeah those are some of my mind this morning. I
just thinking about the importance of diversity. I hope that is interesting
and useful to you and I hope you have a fantastic day and we'll catch you
on the other side.
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By Kent C. Dodds
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Hey friends, so I am at ski resort in Utah right now and they have this
kind of a funny story that in the bathroom they have the urinals covered up
like every other one covered up for social distancing and a few weeks ago
when I brought my son up here he needed to use the bathroom and all of the
and he's he's kind of small so normal he just uses the pot but all of the
those were being used and he really needed to go and so I was going to.
Have him use the urinal but they covered up the only small or short urinal
so they because they covered up every other one they just happened to cover
up the only short one and so I I ripped off the garbage bag that was tied
on to it and so he could go but it just made me think like the the this is
has something to do with like accessibility and the importance of diversity
in your team because I imagine that the the person who is assigned to cover
those up like they didn't tell them which ones to cover up they just
covered it they chose one and they did every other one and it just happened
to cover.
Up the the shorter one but if they'd been apparent then maybe they were a
parent of small children or something then maybe they would have thought oh
let's make sure we keep this one uncovered so that smaller or shorter as
smaller children are shorter people can use this one and that's the sort of
thing that you just miss out on if you don't have a diverse team so I I
think that is like it's kind of a silly example, but it is an example of a
situation where having a broader set of experiences on your team can expose
you to more needs that.
Your users might have and so yeah those are some of my mind this morning. I
just thinking about the importance of diversity. I hope that is interesting
and useful to you and I hope you have a fantastic day and we'll catch you
on the other side.