I tell people all the time when they ask how we get more women and tech, encourage everyone to braid, be it hair or bracelet. Code and poetry, both about patterns. Both taught through braiding.

In fact I am starting to use weaving and quilting more and more as a metaphor of learning...You know only a man would define history by weapon, bronze and iron ages. But advances and textiles just as important to the advance of humans across the globe and over and under each other.