@ez I still remember your #NoVehiclesInThePark session from last year :)
Could not be here this week-end, I wish you a good #SoCraTes
Sessions I went to at #SoCraTes France today
Tim Schraepen discussing how to interview for an ability to face uncertainty and learn
Michel Grootjans taking notes and driving while I facilitated #NoVehiclesInThePark
Angi on spoon theory and managing your own energy
Bastien David on training your curiosity
All artisanal, hand-crafted, organic, eco-friendly, AI-free sessions of learning and collaboration. ๐
So far Iโve got as possibilities
1. a request for another round of #NoVehiclesInThePark
2. this crowd probably has something to say on smooth, fast, and boring releases https://elizabethzagroba.com/posts/2026/01_17_smooth_fast_boring_releases/
3. I got asked about testing in regulated industries but I donโt have much advice there yet
4. dinner conversation last night got me recommending this book https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/e8f3d3c6-1ee6-4ae1-8579-505958a0a13c
As the poll results filter in, I want you to look back and notice how much disagreement there is over something as simple as a chair, despite the fact that we ALL know what a chair is. I would bet that more than a few people even changed their answer to #1 on #5 when it was revealed it was an AI image. Same image. Same person. Same quiz. Two different answers. Remember this exercise the next time some asshat transphobe asks you "What is a woman". We can't even agree with each other on what is a chair, let alone something as personal and unique and complex as sex, gender, gender identity, and gender presentation. "What is a chair" fails, not because the word is meaningless, but because language is fluid and fuzzy and that is a FEATURE of language, not a bug. A chair is what we say it is. Womanhood is exactly the same. But with one key difference. Women are alive and have agency. Chairs can't self-identify. Women can. What is a woman? A woman is who she says she is. Even if she doesn't look the way you expect. Even if she doesn't fit the dictionary definition. Even if she can't do a lot of the things most other women can with her body. Even if that identity is for her, and her alone. And yes, even if sometimes she's a bit of a toilet garbage human. She's still a woman, because the one requirement to being a woman is fulfilled: She says she is.
We decided today that when youโre pushing a bicycle, itโs not a vehicle, but when youโre riding a bicycle, it is a vehicle. #NoVehiclesInThePark
Dimitri Merejkowsky
Elizabeth Zagroba
