A podcast about tech storytelling. @jkriggins and @richggall talk to the tech storytellers and community builders who define, explain, and translate the future.
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Tech retweeted
12 Oct 2023
Proud of this piece, but especially loved being able to quote @yvonnezlam:
“I think that a lot of what we’re sort of fumbling towards is like love... How do we care for each other professionally? What kinds of things help us do our jobs better?”
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Tech retweeted
16 May 2023
I'm really honored to have been invited to write for @TheLeadDev, which has a track record of prioritizing #DEI across its #community.
And excited to introduce my topic of 2023 (so far): #PlatformEngineering to its audience! Please read and share!
leaddev.com/tech/can-platfor…
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Tech retweeted
7 Apr 2023
Despite time/expense dedicated to #onboarding, little attention paid to #offboarding — an opportunity missed, and a risk to your whole #recruitment #retention cycle and team motivation. So I created a guide to help! Thanks @tobealy and more
thenewstack.io/tech-works-a-… #TechLayoffs
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Tech retweeted
25 Jan 2023
Some dude on LinkedIn offered me a compelling topic to get paid to write about. Then he told me I would get paid exclusively on page views and shares… Don’t do that. That’s like so 20 years ago, and no way to value your #writing nor long-term SEO. #WritingTips #WritersLife
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Some of the hardest writing is laying people off. But one of the most important writing. Handle with care.
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Tech retweeted
25 Jan 2023
If you’re still here, please join us on Mastodon! If you follow me for iOS/Apple things, the community is already there and geeking out about Ivory like it’s 2011 again ✨
I even tweeted about something diversity & inclusion related recently and got zero trolls in my replies 🤯
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Tech retweeted
20 Jan 2023
We'll look back at this week as an inflection point when Big Tech lost its former attractiveness. It will be stories like Justin's, and the countless ones to be told, where many realize that, during layoffs, people become numbers, and 8% of those numbers need to be "marked."
ALT Screenshot of a LinkedIn post by Justin Moore saying: So after over 16.5 years at Google, I appear to have been let go via an automated account deactivation at 3am this morning as one of the lucky 12,000. I don't have any other information, as I haven't received any of the other communications the boilerplate "you've been let go" website (which I now also can't access) said I should receive. It was a (largely) wonderful 16 years, and I'm really proud of the work that I and my teams did over the years. I got to work with some great people and really help a lot of our users around the world in the Civics and Elections space. I was so incredibly fortunate. This also just drives home that work is not your life, and employers -- especially big, faceless ones like Google -- see you as 100% disposable. Live life, not work.
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Tech retweeted
19 Jan 2023
Journalist friends: I'm teaching a course about freelancing/building a career in journalism this semester. What do you wish you'd known earlier? I'm covering pitching, invoicing, safety, taxes, relationships, online presence...what else?
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Tech retweeted
15 Jan 2023
What’s the first language you ever got paid to write code in? For me: C#/.NET, followed closely by PHP
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Tech retweeted
15 Jan 2023
I’m about to cry lol I just saw an engineer I worked w/ on my first web dev job back in 2018. His name is Alex…he made such an impact on my life. He never made me feel bad for asking questions, always willing to teach me & he didn’t know back then HOW gifted. I hope he knows now
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Tech retweeted
3 Jan 2023
So I haven't said anything about Elon Musk or Twitter because
a) I am really trying to allocate my fucks given away from my areas of impotency, and
b) the only appropriate commentary is gallows humor, and there are many people much funnier than me on the job.
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Tech retweeted
30 Dec 2022
A very interesting sentence in C. Wright Mills’ The Sociological Imagination:
“Since one can be trained only in what is already known, training sometimes incapacitates one from learning new ways; it makes one rebel against what is bound to be at first loose and even sloppy.”
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Tech retweeted
13 Dec 2022
this piece is called "How to Recruit and Onboard Neurodivergent People", but -- and I realize this is not a novel insight, by any means 🤣 -- it does pretty fucking great as a piece on making interviews/onboarding better for everyone. blog.container-solutions.com…
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Tech retweeted
11 Dec 2022
I'm obsessed with 1-person companies and have spent over 50 hours researching them.
Here are the 10 most impressive ones that have generated millions in revenue with 0 employees:
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Tech retweeted
9 Feb 2022
There are a million different definitions of observability floating around, and I'm probably responsible for more than my fair share of them. But as a user, the key functionality to watch for is:
* high-cardinality
* high-dimensionality
* explorability
Accept no substitutes. 🐝
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Tech retweeted
5 Dec 2022
For all the people at AWS like me who have been pushing hard for better DX and integration, the title of this made my heart happy. ❤️
So, @awscloud announced some cool things last week at re:Invent, but for me, the real news was AWS' growing commitment to tighter integration btwn its services, more love for third-party products, & greater open source commitment infoworld.com/article/368215… by @mjasay for @InfoWorld
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Tech retweeted
17 Nov 2022
if your on call rotations were 100% voluntary, how many of your engineers would opt in to them?
👇slides from a recent talk of mine on making on call duty a fun, interesting change of pace (and a badge of honor) ☺️.
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Tech retweeted
15 Nov 2022
So if you’ve just purchased a company that uses microservices and want to understand what the hell they are, and whether or not turning them off randomly will cause issues, this might be helpful: samnewman.io/books/building_…
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Tech retweeted
14 Nov 2022
This tweet might not be here next week, but this event will almost certainly be happening — come see @parismarx and @gemmamilne at @Lighthousebks next Thursday (24th November)
lighthousebookshop.com/event…
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Tech retweeted
14 Nov 2022
Today, we celebrate 8 years!
In 8 years, we’ve:
☁️curated an ecosystem of brilliant people and clients
☁️made a dent in the Cloud Native landscape
☁️secured a needle-shifting investment
and more.
Thank you to everyone who’s part of this. Here’s to today. Here’s to the future🥂
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