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30 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Oh shit.
medium.com/indica/the-gig…
This quote in particular (edited for brevity):

"the core functionality of these apps is not significantly different than having a servant. What the technology has done is — most importantly — make it possible to not think of them as servants at all."
This is a very American thing. It's also critical to create enough indirection that the workers also don't think of themselves as servants. Or at least obscure things enough for them to manage the cognitive dissonance.
This is spot on. There is a lot to be said about the gig economy that is not in the above post. Others have explored it in more depth and better IMO. The servant framing was new to me, but this one has to be a major part of any analysis as well.

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Kevin is trying his best. He seems sincere. But he's exhibiting the core fallacy that blocks a lot of white people from engaging honestly in this discourse. This is a gross mischaracterization of what is happening when we say "white people". It's intellectually lazy and dishonest
Let me be extra clear for @kevinrwhitley and everyone else.

"lumping the *entire* population categorically into a single entity"

This is wrong. It is not what is happening. This framing is *entirely* about YOUR feelings. Not about what is actually being said.
Until you can hear the phrase "white people" without turning it into an absolute generalization in your head, you will find that you do not have the range that is necessary to participate in the discourse. That's it. That's a place to start.
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It's #GivingTuesday, which means we gotta talk about @BBFounders. This organization was started by my wife @operaqueenie. After founding her own startup and going through the trials of trying to raise money from people who don't fund Black and brown folks.
Being who she is, she set out to create alternatives for our community. She wanted to create different ways to support entrepreneurship for those who are underrepresented and underestimated. The mission of @BBFounders is to provide community, education, and access to founders.
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I'm gonna try to say this in a way that doesn't sound blamey, but I may fail at it. A lot of us have this experience talking to people who are learning. We say "you should learn fundamentals". And the responses we get are often ones of frustration and impatience.
I'm not dismissing those feelings. I think I understand a lot about where they come from. But I would like to see the conversation about combatting that and helping the community to be open to this kind of advice. There is no shortcut to becoming more confident in your skills.
I'm also wondering if there's another lesson here though. Maybe there's no shortcut that prevents people from having to learn this lesson for themselves. All of the cultural baggage around "learn to code" is giving people the wrong message about they're getting into.
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A lot of white people need to be deprogrammed. It felt weird to use that word at first, but I honestly think it’s the right one. Like they’re mostly okay. Then you hit this completely fictional reality written into the firmware and it just causes these glitches.
We need a whole curriculum for this. Maybe it’s like rehab or something. But somebody sits down with @NathanLerner like let’s go through history in detail until you understand some fundamental things you believe just are not true. They never were. Then let’s rebuild your values.
It seems like this person is trying to do good work. They want to enable a more progressive future for everyone. That’s great. Imagine what they could accomplish if they weren’t working with a fundamentally flawed value system. One that won’t allow them to see the work clearly.
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A few weeks, and even a few months, is *not* enough time to recover from serious work-related burnout. Yes you can recover. But in my experience it takes longer. And we all know that being out of work for an extended period is not feasible for most people.
I do want to offer a different perspective though. In my case at least, what I decided was to get a less stressful job. Burnout is one of the main reasons I stepped back from management and went back to an individual contributor role. That was 18 months ago.
I want to fully acknowledge the privilege and good fortune that I have to be able to make that decision. I have strong prospects, my skills as an engineer had not atrophied very much. And in my industry, I didn’t make much less money than I did before. In fact I make more now.
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What's funny to me is that they either thought people wouldn't actually do it, or more likely they are confused and dismayed at how much "whole selves" some of us have. I'm reminded of @AnandWrites talking about how limited a lot of these tech leaders actually are.
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Those who advocate for increased diversity, equity, and inclusion have been pushing this mantra of "bring your whole self to work". We do it because we recognized it was necessary in order to make space for people who aren't white dudes. Our whole selves have never been welcome.
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