Starbucks’ Implicit Bias is Our Bias

Today Starbucks closed all of it’s coffee shops in the morning to train their employees on implicit bias. I want to talk about this too, though I think my tiny blog might get lost in the internet noise. I have friends (mostly white) who are interested in this conversation because it seems to highlight aContinue reading “Starbucks’ Implicit Bias is Our Bias”

What is the meaning of life and what if there is an answer other than 42?

In Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy the super computer, Deep Thought, takes 7.5 million years to find the answer to life, the universe and everything, and the answer is 42. Those who receive the answer aren’t pleased. “Forty-two!” yelled Loonquawl. “Is that all you’ve got to show for seven and a halfContinue reading “What is the meaning of life and what if there is an answer other than 42?”