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A case for diversity: If two heads are better than one, then five heads are better than two and the statement grows infinitely. However, if the differences between the first two heads are neglible save their names, then we’re still working with one head and we’re gonna need a lot more heads to get in the game.

Work with me here.

Whenever my dad, a pastor, gets to preaching on the sins, sicknesses and sorrows of life, he eventually declares the cure for many a sickness has not yet been revealed to humankind by God. Take this as you may, but statements like that intrigue me, not in a theological way, but rather in a significant moments kinda way.

There are an infinite number of variables that can contribute to any solution, invention or paradigm. In theory, the more diverse those variables are, the more radical the solution, invention or paradigm. The moments become striking.

The internet has served billions of pages and that amount is increasing at a crazy speed. There have been several significant moments on the internet, but I’m curious to how diverse the variables contributing to that moment have been. And by variables I mean people, geography, ways of thinking, institutions, systems and so on. But I especially mean people.

If we want to get to the next level of thinking in technology, we’ve got to get all of humankind playing the game, talking to each other, reinforcing and challenging ideas at every moment. Whenever one group is left out of the conversation, we are seriously lacking. Whenever two, three or more groups are left out we are handicapped and those moments are moving, swirling, rolling, waiting for the variables to start talking.