BBT #15 Snippet | Leaving Home for a T*** Job Changed Everything

Black Box Theory Podcast · May 8, 2026 · 4m · transcript

A Black engineer from Maryland almost didn't take his Microsoft internship in Seattle. Didn't want to leave home. Didn't want to be the only one in the room. Didn't want to step into a city where 7% of the population looks like him. He went anyway — and his point is real: in Seattle, in that Pacific Northwest tech corridor, you are surrounded by people in tech in a way that most East Coast cities outside of New York simply cannot replicate. The network density, the career exposure, the compounding effect of being in a room where your industry is the default — it is different, and it matters…