The Death of Liberal Arts
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Argues that humanities skills—communication, logic, rhetoric, empathy—directly improve testing and automation strategy, with a 150-person survey showing 73% liberal-arts degrees among tech respondents and median earnings around $111k (five-year entrants ≈ $76k vs CS $65k). Recommends concrete practices: model test requirements, run UX testing, build and maintain automation pipelines and test suites, use analytics and AI/ML to ask the right questions, partner with bootcamps and give teams dedicated learning time.
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- 0:00Introduction
- 0:34What is STEM
- 1:05Who am I
- 1:41Why this talk
- 2:16Ashleys past
- 4:14Ashleys education
- 6:27Democracy
- 6:55Education
- 7:17The Greeks
- 9:32Modern Liberal Arts
- 12:13North Carolina
- 12:58My Favorite Drawing
- 14:17Media
- 14:40Debt
- 15:08Misconceptions
- 16:24Survey
- 16:59Tech Pioneers
- 17:37Media Response
- 18:02You Wont Make Money
- 18:23My Survey
- 19:07Skills from Liberal Arts
- 19:28Communication
- 19:51Roles
- 20:40Adaptability
- 21:20Bigpicture view
- 21:53Peer mediation active listening
- 22:58Gender studies
- 23:59Sarah
- 24:58Alex
- 26:17Reading
- 26:55Asking Questions
- 27:18Who Are We Building This Future For
- 29:18Where Do I Need To Test
- 30:19Why
- 30:53Laura Hogan
- 37:04Artificial Intelligence
- 38:19Ethics
- 40:06Jurassic Park
- 40:57Audience Questions
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