#PMvEng asks Q6: #JacobyRule - How much of your #personalbrand comes into play in your project process? Does it lead to unconscious bias or have u been viewed w/bias because of your public persona? What do u do to improve yourself as an individual?
Note: The #JacobyRule is named after me because I used to cheer when extra questions were posted!!
@jacobyaudio I'm trying to avoid my personal brand - that's what got me into a consultancy that has had limited growth. I try to build repeatable processes that are reliable, and I can hand off to other folks as they come onto the company.
My partner has been key to keeping biases in check and good practices on track - she pushes for higher pay/profit sharing, strategic hiring and partnerships, and avoiding problematic companies.
@avmsp Agreed. It's much nicer over here.
Only takes a few seconds of scrolling on the bird site to run into misinformation and hate.
@avmsp Mastodon does have a very good filter system. It's easy to filter out toots that contain keywords you don't want to see. That's a long with muting and hiding the worst of them.
It's also a neat trick that you can follow hashtags on here. I've found some great audio discussions on here just by following #audio
@jacobyaudio I need to spend more time on here. I've been putting a lot of time in on the commercial AV discord... that getting pretty active.
Does Mastodon support any regex filtering? I've got a good script from Reddit that works well.
@avmsp I'm not a huge fan of Discord. Just too many notifications!!
Define "regex"? Depending on the server you're in, there are instances that get automatically blocked.
@jacobyaudio you can manage alerts. I'm on a lot of servers, so I keep it tidy with mentions only.
Regular expressions. It lets you block words and all variations easily. It's tedious to write in, but effective.
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