Links: Tech, privacy, diversity in hiring
Feb. 17th, 2024 12:54 pm( Tell me you work in tech without telling me you work in tech. ) via. I didn't write this, but I could have.
How to Respond Without Reacting by Svenja Schäfer. How to interrupt a cycle of interruptions at work.
In the Shadow of Silicon Valley by Rebecca Solnit. A love letter to San Francisco, community, and connectedness, and how billionaires in tech are degrading it in San Francisco and the world. "You can’t really be in favour of both democracy and billionaires, because democracy requires equal opportunity in order to participate, and extreme wealth gives its holders unfathomable advantages with little accountability."
Practical Privacy Tips by The Author of the Control Alt Delete Blog via![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
silveradept. I removed "Easy" and "For Everyone" from the title, since those things are relative. Tips to start with, I would call it.
Welcome to the Opt Out Project. A whole blog of tips for how to take your online life and privacy back from Big Tech.
The Power of Being New: A Proven Recipe for High Impact by Hazel Weakly.
My Diverse Hiring Playbook by Jacob Kaplan-Moss. More practical tips, this time to hire more underrepresented people in tech. Which links to Some Diversity Advice I Give by Sumana Harihareswara. "This playbook is only about hiring – how to attract a more diverse talent pipeline. [...] if your organization treats underrepresented people badly, no amount of “pipeline” work will improve things. Fix your inclusivity problem first."
Positive feedback is different from praise by Jacob Kaplan-Moss.
How to Respond Without Reacting by Svenja Schäfer. How to interrupt a cycle of interruptions at work.
- Is the comment or question directly related to my work?
- Can the author answer the question themself?
- Is there someone around who can answer?
In the Shadow of Silicon Valley by Rebecca Solnit. A love letter to San Francisco, community, and connectedness, and how billionaires in tech are degrading it in San Francisco and the world. "You can’t really be in favour of both democracy and billionaires, because democracy requires equal opportunity in order to participate, and extreme wealth gives its holders unfathomable advantages with little accountability."
Practical Privacy Tips by The Author of the Control Alt Delete Blog via
silveradept. I removed "Easy" and "For Everyone" from the title, since those things are relative. Tips to start with, I would call it.Welcome to the Opt Out Project. A whole blog of tips for how to take your online life and privacy back from Big Tech.
The Power of Being New: A Proven Recipe for High Impact by Hazel Weakly.
the important part was to utilize my empathy, listen to others, understand their viewpoints, and solve their problems. That’s the magic, by the way.
My Diverse Hiring Playbook by Jacob Kaplan-Moss. More practical tips, this time to hire more underrepresented people in tech. Which links to Some Diversity Advice I Give by Sumana Harihareswara. "This playbook is only about hiring – how to attract a more diverse talent pipeline. [...] if your organization treats underrepresented people badly, no amount of “pipeline” work will improve things. Fix your inclusivity problem first."
Positive feedback is different from praise by Jacob Kaplan-Moss.
Praise looks towards the past: it’s recognition for a (past) job well done. Feedback, on the other hand, is about the future: the goal of positive feedback is to encourage similar behavior in the future. Praise is about saying “thanks”; feedback is about saying “keep doing that” or “more like this please”.
