Strategic communication: creates understanding, drives agreement, and builds trust. “You’re all bad at it.” @skamille coming in strong with the harsh truth 🥲 #LeadingEngNewYork Status updates are strategic updates. Good opportunity to provide reflection, education, and visibility. Good to do this regularly and have your teams do this. Useful record for promos and reviews too! #LeadingEngNewYork

I just gave a Security 101 for Seniors presentation to my mom and 10 of her best girl friends and they had such a great time learning! They’re in their 70s and get bombarded with messages about how everything is hacked and they wanted to be better informed about where to start They had questions about VPNs, updating their router security, MagSafe, private relays… but also very few of them used a password manager or used 2FA

Listen, we need to acknowledge that spite-driven career development is a real and valid thing Old boss said you couldn’t do something? Get that paper.

Broseph stole your ideas and got promoted? Become an expert and start your own company.

Someone doubted you? Make it impossible for them to ignore how great you are.

Saw a video about teaching dogs to talk and the buttons finally arrived! Starting Walter off with “outside” (Scout is... not participating)

hungerforwords.com/post/stella-s-… WHO IS THE SMARTEST BOI

Some great takeaways from #LeadDevLive:

- #covid19 is a marathon, not a sprint
- this is not normal
- your safety and health first, work second
- over communicate over communicate over communicate
- kiddo interruptions are a fact of life (male leaders, pls demonstrate this!) - don't cause more chaos than necessary
- model good behavior - TAKE TIME OFF REGULARLY
- did i say overcommunicate yet? overcommunicate
- reduced productivity is expected - have you adjusted your roadmap yet? have you overcommunicated it yet?

Friends, if this is your first time working remotely, here’s some helpful tips (thread) Schedule your breaks and walk around outside if you can. It’s very easy to work past your usual hours

Always design software with abusive exes in mind

https://twitter.com/jllord/status/1078312912509460481

The upsetting thing about this is Jessica has been dealing with this for A MONTH and Google Support says it’s a bug but also working as intended

Your software shouldn’t work to enable people to harass others!

Who are harassers? It’s not people in basements, it’s people like us who are doing social sanctions (shame) We think “an eye for an eye” for social blunders is justifies online harassment

Yesterday on BART I heard one Asian lady engineer give negotiation advice to her friend that was so egregiously wrong, I almost committed a SF atrocity and talked to them

But my stop was next so, in true SF fashion, here’s a tweet thread /1 The first Asian woman seemed to be interviewing for her first engineering job and didn’t know how to negotiate. She wanted $10k more

Her friend proceeded to talk her out of it because “they spend so much time and money to interview YOU there isn’t much left” /2

I’ve explained this to two white men tonight, which warrants a thread on the topic:

Well-meaning white people, the inclusion of marginalized voices (LGBT, POC, etc) does NOT mean we are excluding you 1/? When a person is used to a world where everything is made for them, being asked to make space for others is threatening

It can be scary because for the first time in your life, someone is asking you to stretch and consider *you are part of the problem* 2/?