“Your complex system runs in degraded mode. A lot.
We partly learn from incidents to learn how to better prevent them. But also to learn how to better respond to inevitable reality that incidents cannot be completely eradicated in complex systems” @nickstenning#LeadDevBerlin
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Latest in the “moving into tech leadership and/or management” subtheme here today at #LeadDevSanFrancisco is “Becoming a Manager Somewhere Else” from @mybluewristband
“Not all the advice provided in this talk will definitely work for you, as it’s my own story”
Jenn’s Career Trajectory:
- civil engineer
- mechanical engineer
- structural engineer
- customer support (to get foot in the door of tech)
- web developer (~5 years)
- software engineer (again. Another 3 yrs)
- moving towards management
“Three Things to Look for in the Person:
[0) Care about people (non-neg) ] 1) Doubts (filter out power hungry) 2) Growth mindset (highly competent at engineering —> highly incompetent at managing) 3) Courage to be disliked (recognition changes)
“Inclusion is a foundation for setting and creating a level playing field for people to be given opportunities to succeed. Inclusion has to presume competence.”
I love the @TheLeadDev crowd so much. They just gave @carlaprvieira applause and whooping for explaining it’s her first time in the US and her first international conference talk here at #LeadDevSanFrancisco 🥰🥰🥰💖💖💖
“Bias is like a virus that travels and is replicated by machine learning models.”
Potential Harms Caused by AI Systems: 1) Bias & discrimination 2) Denial of individual autonomic rights 3) Non-transparent, unexplainable or unjustifiable outcomes 4) Invasions of privacy 5) Unreliable, unsafe or poor quality outcomes