# Tracy Chou, leading Silicon Valley engineer, explains why every tech worker needs a humanities education — Quartz

<https://qz.com/1016900/tracy-chou-leading-silicon-valley-engineer-explains-why-every-tech-worker-needs-a-humanities-education/>

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## What Jamie wrote

This is a start, but I think we need to go further. [Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0465039146/?tag=thingelstad01-20) by [Larry Lessing](http://www.lessig.org/about/) makes this point in a big way. If technologists are creating the worlds in which we interact, the structure of those worlds is important in more ways than we know. **Ethics** is completely missing in this discussion inside our industry.

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