Cat HicksAug 23, 2024

Today I'm launching something near and dear to my heart...VERY near and dear 😂 -- a podcast project with my phenomenal favorite neuroscientist (& wife), @analog_ashley !

On "Change, Technically" we're coming to your ears to share tales of who gets to be technical. We dig into STEM pathways & how leaders can learn from psych and neuroscience to think about cultivating innovation. We share our stories from classrooms to software teams. Plus new Cat & Ashley lore!

https://www.changetechnically.fyi/

Change, Technically

Ashley Juavinett, PhD and Cat Hicks, PhD explore technical skills, the science of innovation, STEM pathways, and our beliefs about who gets to be technical—so you can be a better leader and we can all build a better future.Ashley, a neuroscientist...

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Show threadSevorisAug 25, 2024
@grimalkina @analog_ashley Stuck at minute 21 of the podcast and something just hit me: focusing on actual, personal outcomes over "get a better job" is a generally much more empowering mindset. I‘m referencing Brian Merchants "democratic discourse of introducing tech" here. The biologists who does empowering new things with her data meets what *she* needs - not what someone offering a job needs. The reversal of an implicit power asymmetry is something really, really cool, is my point.
Show threadAshley JuavinettAug 25, 2024
@Sevoris @grimalkina ooh i'm not familiar with what you're referencing, could you link? (couldn't find with a quick search)
Show threadSevorisAug 25, 2024

@analog_ashley @grimalkina It‘s kinda messy, and idk if Merchant ever wrote it out like that.

But he framed it repeatedly like this in a podcast: “The fact that this was a profoundly undemocratic process, that [The Luddites] are being forced to either succumb, to either go work in the factories or to find and give up, which wasn't an option, by the way. This isn't a diverse economy that we recognize today.”

Better Offline: Enzittification with Cory Doctorow & Brian Merchant, 7. Aug. 2024

Show threadLaura Langdon

@Sevoris @analog_ashley @grimalkina I think he did write it up!

https://bookshop.org/p/books/blood-in-the-machine-the-origins-of-the-rebellion-against-big-tech-brian-merchant/17824365

Aug 25, 2024 at 5:23pmWeb
Show threadSevorisAug 25, 2024
@LauraLangdon @analog_ashley @grimalkina I *just* managed to find the better citation for where he talks about this, and posted it in this thread. And I suspect it's then also elaborated on in his book.