TedNov 22, 2022

I think we need to, culturally, seperate "professionalism" from "sanitized".

I work with a bunch of brilliant, competent, incredible people. And they are funny, and weird, and authentic. All the time.

But there's still a prevailing vision that "professionalism" is being "on". Is a mask you wear to show yourself as "adult". You hide the weird, you put on the suit, you shake hands, your jokes are designed for chuckles.

That's not professionalism to me. Professionalism is treating folks with respect and getting shit done. It's being honest and human.

De-brand yourself, be all of yourself, be your brilliant and weird and capable and ambitious self.

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@esdin i am a consummate professional

but i am also always very, unapologetically real

Nov 22, 2022 at 3:19pmWeb
Show threadIrinaNov 22, 2022
@extinct @esdin I did a professional thing today (non-core part of job), and I *think* I was real and mostly unmasked (except for the faint trace of autistic masking I always wear when dealing with people who don't know I'm autistic when it's none of their business). I did shake hands and introduce myself and say the appropriate social-lubrication things but I wasn't cosplaying as something not-me.