Amelia Cook

Mixed race WOC | ADHD diagnosis at 34 AMA | Rethinking how to do small business with radical politics | Current obsession: mechanical keyboards | She/her

[Amelia Cook @AmeliaCook]

This week's #Techish touched on an issue I've been struggling with lately:

Is it even possible to do capitalism ethically when the system itself is structured to do harm?

My answer would be... yes and no.

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[Camila Lenis @ladivaloper]

Don't spend 6 minutes doing something by hand when you can spend 6 hours failing to automate it.

[David A. Goodman @DavidAGoodman]

Turns out the covid vaccine appointment site is run by my dead mother.

[nhu 🇻🇳🇨🇳 @maisonlongan]

if we're gonna talk about not romanticizing french people as revolutionaries, i think that should also extend to the obsession with the guillotine as a symbol of class revolution. the guillotine were one of the violent tools that the french used to punish its former colonies

[Amelia Cook @AmeliaCook]

Starting to figure out how to steer my hyperfocus without ditching my responsibilities, feels pretty great! Getting ADHD coaching was such a good call.

[Amelia Cook @AmeliaCook]

@alexisohanian This may seem true, but as someone with ADHD who struggles with both, the original advice works without either!

"Figure out how you naturally work best and get other people to respect it" = reflection+analysis+communication. Doesn't rely on discipline/focus, even if they'd help.

[Alexis Ohanian 🗽 @alexisohanian]

Challenge em to step aside ~ board seats are ez because it's not a full-time job (yet still has influence) + no one is going to be at your funeral saying "We're all here today bc of what a great job Alexis did in that board seat."

[justkelly.bsky.social @UrFriendKelly]

Women: "hey corp, it would be better if your employees didn't have to endure sexual assault?"

Corp: "we hear you! That's why we support this program to get more girls into a career of lifelong frustration, gaslighting, and sexism! Oh and did I mention we do a float at pride?!"

[Amelia Cook @AmeliaCook]

@BoozCelestin @DelJohnsonVC I think he'd already finished and closed the space by then! At least you know it should work for next time.

[Amelia Cook @AmeliaCook]

@BoozCelestin @DelJohnsonVC I'm listening on an Android device right now, I just had to give Twitter access to my microphone first. Maybe try it again?

[Amelia Cook @AmeliaCook]

I did a lot of the heavy lifting early on, as my ADHD pushed me through booking a venue, photographer, videographer, and dress appointments with most of my loved ones.

But now my fiancé's picked it up too, it's so fun to look at invitations and cake with him! We're a good team.

[Amelia Cook @AmeliaCook]

I was supposed to get married in July 2021. In May 2020 my gut told me to push it back. I'm SO glad we did.

Postponing so early was self-care. We'd already booked the key suppliers pre-COVID, so as soon as they confirmed the new date we were done with wedding planning for 2020.

[Amelia Cook @AmeliaCook]

Turns out we needed that break to reflect and agree on some important changes. Now we've set those in motion, I'm getting excited about the wedding again, after not thinking about it for months!

We definitely benefited from the opportunity to just sit with our plans for a while.

[mtp @tsengputterman]

Imperialism doesn't just happen because the West doesn't like this or that skin color or culture. It happens because capitalism needs to secure captive labor, resources, and markets to survive. Race is a construct which justifies this process, not an inherent status preceding it.

[mtp @tsengputterman]

If we see imperialism merely as consequence of racial prejudice, we'll be duped when power mobilizes "diversity" as its new enabling discourse. Desegregated troops, Black defense secretaries, non-white client states—are all symbols of modern empire, not evidence of its undoing.

[Florence Schechter @floschechter]

I have since learnt glass floors are also bad for:

- Guide dogs
- Mobility accessibility (very slippy)
- Dementia
- Vertigo
- Fear of heights
- KILTS

[Florence Schechter @floschechter]

tell me you had no women involved in your design process without telling me you had no women involved in your design process

[Dan Price @DanPriceSeattle]

@Norm_Farrell there's no way a CEO is going to say "I can't put the extra effort in for $10 million. But for $20M? I will." And yet every time you hear of a raise to $20M, there's a quote from the board saying "the CEO needs to be motivated." Makes no sense, yet it's accepted as Business 101.

[Dan Price @DanPriceSeattle]

We discovered higher pay doesn't suddenly transform people into better employees. But when you remove money as an obstacle to life, they can bring their full selves to work.

There's tons of research on this. It's a shame more companies don't realize the benefits of higher pay.