I said this elsewhere already, but I've been really proud to see Twilio take steps such as this one to bring more people (and more women in particular) into programming. Not being a part of the web team, I've only watched from the sidelines as Renee, who's consistently been in the office before I arrive in the morning and after I roll out in the evening, has worked to master a whole slew of technologies, and to ship new, non-trivial features for our customers.

I'm really not sure how the two facts we see here -- of people working exceptionally hard to better themselves, and of a company going out of its way to help people do that -- have to do with a bubble. It's hardly a new idea that companies do better financially when they help their employees learn to do work that they couldn't do before, or to do it better.

As the technology community, it's in all our interest to help people learn things they couldn't do before. Twilio's story is one example. Other great ones include RailsBridge, PyLadies, the Boston Python Workshop, and PyStar. Let's do more of this!