Today is full of buzz about @zeynep — a few years back she delivered a wildly thought-provoking and challenging warning at @drupalcon Baltimore that is… *extremely relevant in retrospect* opentranscripts.org/transcript/sur…
Feels like a perfect example of the kind of thing @Blackamazon has deconstructed lately: any time you hear prominent cultural voices say, "No one thought X could happen!" there have been people clearly explaining that X would happen.
There's often real shock as they process what they did not think (or did not want to think) would happen; but there's also a big helping of CYA revisionism.
"I thought it wouldn't happen, and used my platform to tell people it wouldn't, and now it is" is a guilty place to be.
"I thought it wouldn't happen, and used my platform to tell people it wouldn't, and now it is" is a guilty place to be.
But too often the energy is focused on dunking those people — the "it won't happen" folks who keep their platforms.
What is increasingly more important is figuring out how to listen to and amplify the actually-on-target people earlier, to figure out why they were on the margins.
What is increasingly more important is figuring out how to listen to and amplify the actually-on-target people earlier, to figure out why they were on the margins.
