@tom_geraghty You have to see this, especially the last part about the company culture.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAYd9WEfzoQ

#PsychologicalSafety #management #SafetyCulture #space

Silence isn't a lack of ideas. It is often deep processing. 🧠

Based on Dr. Amy Edmondson’s research, high-performing teams require Psychological Safety to thrive. 🤝

Be an amplifier for the quiet ones.

Full article here: https://zurl.co/TerdT

#Leadership #ActiveListening #EQ #PsychologicalSafety

Is Communication Training Outdated? Rethinking “Professional Communication” in Neurodiverse and Multicultural Workplaces— Communication training wasn’t designed for neurodiverse and multicultural workplaces—but it can evolve.
It’s time to shift from “polished” communication to accessible communication.

#Neurodiversity #InclusiveWorkplace #CommunicationSkills #PsychologicalSafety #CulturalIntelligence #WorkplaceLearning #SystemsThinking #NotQuiteSuperhuman

https://notquitesuperhuman.com/2026/02/15/is-communication-training-outdated-rethinking-professional-communication-in-neurodiverse-and-multicultural-workplaces/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

In the pursuit of High-Performing Engineering Teams, we often focus on code commits & metrics.

But what if the most important signals live in the relationships between teammates?

In this #InfoQ talk, Lizzie Matusov explores how trust and psychological safety are critical indicators of team success.

🎥 Watch the video 👉 https://bit.ly/4iE0Vlk

📄 #transcript included

#TeamWork #PsychologicalSafety #EngineeringCulture

Learning Is a Series of Iterations, Mercy Is Necessary to Learner Safety

Learning is a series of iterations.

Learning is not linear, we know this. Rather, learning is iterative.

We can create space for iteration. We can create space for failure and revision.

Innovation means that we learn through iteration.

[When we reward first attempts], “we are not honoring a kid’s proficiency, rather we are honoring their privilege”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xomr2q7qLtw

I love the focus on iteration in Cornelius Minor’s keynote for the Conference to Restore Humanity. It speaks to my tech worker, open sourcer, hacker, project manager heart. Our community iterates in the open on our website at stimpunks.org. We have almost 700 pages on our website. They are all living documents in various stages of development. They are iterated continuously in a “default to open”, “blameless postmortem” culture.

• Default to Open – Stimpunks Foundation
• Postmortem – Stimpunks Foundation

We encourage iteration. The mercy built into iterative cultures is vital to learner safety.

The moral imperative to grant learner safety is to act first by encouraging the learner to learn.

Mercy is necessary to learner safety.

• Try Again: Mercy is Necessary to Learner Safety – Stimpunks Foundation

“Retesting clearly works, so I give endless chances. If you’re willing to work, there’s always mercy. You can try again.”

Iteration is messy.

If you want this beautiful spring day where kids are speaking and contributing and collaborating and being thoughtful, we’ve got to walk through some really messy stuff.

You don’t get vintage wine without the aging process, but one of the things that people want to do in schools is they want to skip the aging process.

The way forward is really, really messy, and I think I’m okay with that.

Our spiky profiles are messy.

One of the primary things I wish people knew about autism is that autistic people tend to have ‘spiky skills profiles:’ we are good at some things, bad at other things, and the difference between the two tends to be much greater than it is for most other people.

Which is why we like to reframe “messy” as “embracing multiplicities”.

Multiplicities are an intention: We build the best collaboration, the deepest learning, when we expand the opportunities for complex vision.

Design is tested at the edges.