Tag: adjacent

Living the ‘college adjacent’ lifestyle

At the end of high school, I read a book called The Case Against Education by economics professor Bryan Caplan. He makes the claim that college (as well as K-12 education) is only about credentialing individuals in order to ‘signal’ their intelligence, but that credentials aren...

We Need to Talk About What It Means to Be ‘White-Adjacent’ in Tech

Asians in tech are now frequently considered so white-adjacent that we are no longer identified as people of color, as if the relative overrepresentation of some East and South Asians with socioeconomic and educational privilege means that the entirety of the AAPI community is no longer subject to i...

We Need to Talk About What It Means to Be ‘White-Adjacent’ in Tech

Asians in tech are now frequently considered so white-adjacent that we are no longer identified as people of color, as if the relative overrepresentation of some East and South Asians with socioeconomic and educational privilege means that the entirety of the AAPI community is no longer subject to i...

We Need to Talk About What It Means to Be ‘White-Adjacent’ in Tech

Asians in tech are now frequently considered so white-adjacent that we are no longer identified as people of color, as if the relative overrepresentation of some East and South Asians with socioeconomic and educational privilege means that the entirety of the AAPI community is no longer subject to i...