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13 Jul, 5 tweets, 2 min read
You know what, yeah, lemme opine on recorded meetings for a second.

It has three parts. I'll attempt to present them in an organized fashion.

A thread.

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1. Most meetings already suck. They don't get better because the folks planning the meetings disproportionately hate meetings less due to they have what we call a high Caucus Score.

Now that I've dropped spoilers on this post, here's the details:

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2. Remoteness EXACERBATES the way business as usual discounts the needs & contributions of low Caucus Score, remote, or asynchronous teammates. If a meeting is recorded, it's also, consequently, remote.

More on the consequences of colocation culture:

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3. Pressing the "record" button on a meeting allows teams to abdicate responsibility for informing and involving asynchronous teammates in decision-making.

The theoretical reason for a meeting is collaboration. If someone can't contribute, it should be an email or...

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...in a pedagogical context where folks might learn best by listening or watching rather than reading, it could be a concise, well-organized video, probably with visual aids.

It should almost never be a recording of some people muddling awkwardly through the information.

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15 Jul
@venikunche This is a tricky question. Here's why:

I think what you're asking is "at what age did you experience your age used against you personally."

But ageism has affected my career in tech separately from my personal age. It does this by shaping the ecosystem itself. Examples:

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@venikunche 1. I have never, at a tech company, had a manager over the age of 29, with one exception, who was 32.

It has therefore been impossible for any of them to possess significant management experience. This has affected my experience of, and expectations for, being managed.

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@venikunche 2. I have never had a mentor within my same employer with more than ten years' field experience.

To get these, I have had to specifically go find people outside my employer. Most of them have their own businesses because employers fail to recognize their value as FTEs.

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5 Jul
Oh, I LOVE this question.

Let's talk about contract work versus permanent roles, specifically as an engineer (maybe it applies outside engineering, but I'll stick to what I know).

I have done, and still do, both of these, and I'd love to bust some myths about them.

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MYTH 1: You have to choose one or the other at a given point in time.

I realize that, for plenty of folks with children and other obligations, having anything in addition to a full time job is not tenable, and I acknowledge that.

That does not mean it's always impossible...

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...to try a contract role while in a full time role, if they are curious about it.

Before I started my consultancy, I picked up teaching on the side of my day job. Once I started feeling more fulfilled in teaching than at work, I got A LOT more curious about contract roles.

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22 Jun
So, this thread put some ideas on the table about how to approach product & business development from the exec/director angle.

Now let's talk about it from the angle of a product manager, engineer, or designer.

Thread. (this one will be a little bit stop-and-go today :)
Once upon a time, during the dawn of the internet era, early web products often came from some college kid. The kid was almost always wealthy & well-connected, but he wasn't MARKET-savvy.

These people, now billionaires, have given beaucoup interviews on how they got started.

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Look: I'm as concerned about survivorship bias in drawing conclusions from these interviews as you are. But one thing stands out.

Asked how they got started, they all go "I was playing around and made a thing I wanted to use. Other people liked it. That was literally it."

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19 Jun
Y'all, Twitter is dunking on a Helen Lewis article originally published under the title "There's Too Much Life in our Work Life Balance."

Most of the dunks are witty stuff like "Did a work write this"

But there's a catch and we need to talk about it.

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The catch: the article isn't about doing more work. It's about acknowledging the work that we currently categorize as "life."

In their effort to meme back at lean in culture, the Twitterati are falling into another harmful trope.

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A friend once succinctly observed: "Twitter is not a community." Because communities don't treat relationships as disposable.

On Twitter, people pile on because it's fun, and then wield this (sometimes super shaky) justification that they're sticking up for the little guy.

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23 May
Often I see execs/directors approach inclusion the same way they approach other business initiatives, and then they're surprised/frustrated when the initiatives don't produce the PR/retention/product quality outcomes they want.

Let's talk about what's happening.

A thread.

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Example:

I worked for a company that poured a lot of effort into inclusive hiring: skills rubric, ads in URM Tech spaces, all that. Fast forward two years, all the URMs they had carefully collected had left and they'd backfilled with almost exclusively CHWDs.

What happened?

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Another example:

Slack. Talks a massive game about how inclusive and great they are. Got DMing across Slack channels BUILT AND INTO PROD before anybody pointed out that this is, like, a PERFECT harassment and abuse vector.

What happened?

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21 May
Dear heterosexuals:

For LGBTQ people, it's Pride Month.

But when YOU hear that term, practice replacing it in your mind with "Heteronormativity Awareness Month."

That points you in a much more productive direction with respect to what the LGBTQ community needs you to do.
Questions for heterosexuals to ask themselves in the month of June: a thread

- When a person who presents femme or masc tells a story about their partner but doesn't mention their gender, do I assume the partner's pronouns?
- How often do I see het people displaying affection in public?

- How often do I see het people calling their partners cutesy, or even slightly suggestive, pet names on public social channels?

What sorts of questions do I think a queer person has to ask before doing this?
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