Real people with real knowledge & skills, and who are principled and generous
The more I grow old the more I realize how rare it is to find folks with all these qualities
Either you find real people with real knowledge but who are arrogant assholes or fake people
@impactology thanks and people nurtured and rewarded me, not the current systemic and cultural power-dynamics.
Typical stats:
- 1 woman is paid the equivalent of 0.81 * 1 man
- 1 woman is expected to be baby making machine in all sorts of situations, some of which are or should be illegal.
- 1 woman of African descent (an entire continent) is supposed to have -50 IQ of 1 white man
I’ll stop here but you get the some gist of my systemic and cultural reality.
@[email protected] Yuuuup. And it was apparent pretty early on in his blog too. Back in 2015 when I was writing a sassy feminist-in-tech blog, my best numbers were on the post, "It's not revolutionary to say women are too dumb for tech", which was a direct response to an Adams post where he'd claimed that SCIENCE! said women had lower IQ and because he hadn't met ones he considered worthy, there must not be any. 🙄
Everyday folks
http://www.shanisandy.com/
@gpfau
@rodet
From top of my head & 500 char limit-Mastodon people I’ve met & communed with. I’m not in the head space to go wade in LinkedIn swamp today.
Also apologies if I didn’t mention anyone as I’m creating this on mobile whilst have Saturday morning coffee after a super-hectic week.
DDD community, to mention a few:
@RuthMalan (still have not met in person - 😱)
@diana
@roundcrisis
@kenny_baas
@romeu
@yellowbrickc
@trondhjort
@dahukanna @gpfau @rodet @RuthMalan @diana @roundcrisis @kenny_baas @romeu @yellowbrickc @trondhjort
Since all of y'all are here, I'd like to ask each a Q
How did you figure out to become dependable in your careers? Was it via some training, a mentor, some niche knowledge or skill you developed by side projects on weekends? How did you cement your expertise?
@dahukanna @gpfau @rodet @RuthMalan @diana @roundcrisis @kenny_baas @romeu @yellowbrickc @trondhjort
Like how did y'all figure out "okay this is what folks seem to ignore, this is what I'll figure out and practice to get good at"
@impactology @dahukanna @gpfau @rodet @RuthMalan @diana @kenny_baas @romeu @yellowbrickc @trondhjort
It's more about what is interesting, which is generally derived from how do things work (and they shouldn't) or they don't work (and it should)
Also when you see true systems at work, it's really impressive, and you want to find the leverage points
@roundcrisis @dahukanna @gpfau @rodet @RuthMalan @diana @kenny_baas @romeu @yellowbrickc @trondhjort
Could you give an example of a system you found leverage point for
@impactology @roundcrisis @dahukanna @gpfau @rodet @RuthMalan @diana @kenny_baas @romeu @trondhjort
The team you are part of. The intentional or accidental behaviour of the product you design, or of the developer experience you design.
Systems involving relationships or being created by relationships
Raghav Agrawal
Dawn Ahukanna
Andrea Magnorsky 😹 🦙
Krisztina Hirth