You are here not because you are so great, but because your employer believes you can help them to advance the company’s being. ​ Companies don’t want extra risks. Choosing Haskell is a very big risk itself, and it’s a crime to increase it by doing things wrongly. ​ smart code limits your employer’s field of potential workers. This is certainly a risk, too, and this is how you affect the company even if you are not aware about those risks.

Accepting startups as clients is a bit like choosing to invest in them. You wouldn't want equity in a failing startup, and you wouldn't want a bad company in your consulting portfolio either. The quality of the companies in a contractor's portfolio is a signal for their reputation.

Additionally, we want RC to be a place where everyone can focus their time and energy on becoming better programmers, not worrying that they don’t belong or feeling like they have to represent their entire race or gender because they’re in the extreme minority. We focus on diversity so Recursers can focus on programming.

“That makes sense, except it doesn’t. Shouldn’t large organizations have more of a capacity for handling “m risk” and seek to leverage that to gain long term advantages?”

I’m hearing a lot about hiring mandates in my social circle these days. My friends are being told that their next hire has to be a