Jenny Nilsson

Varma Multimedia Learning - Custom online and mobile training - What can we teach each other today?

[Tom Cashman @_tomcashman]

Somehow we ended up here

[Charity Majors @mipsytipsy]

this is a *baller* post by @mononcqc.

"Metrics are absolutely necessary to compress complex phenomena into an easily legible value that can guide decision-making. They are, however, lossy compression, meaning that without context, we can't properly interpret the data." 😍

[(past account, never updated) @whereistanya]

Pay attention to what gets people promoted. Even if you're not looking for promotion, it shows what the organization values.

- @cdwort at #StaffPlusNewYork

[Archive: AG Karl A. Racine @AGKarlRacine]

We're suing Google for deceiving users and invading their privacy. Our newly unsealed complaint shows even Google employees agree with us:

-Google’s location settings are “definitely confusing.”
-Google used dark patterns to trick people.

Read Google employees’ own words:

[Jorts (and Jean) @JortsTheCat]

Wage theft is the biggest stealing crime in the USA but we aren’t fully funding the National Labor Relations Board!! The NLRB exists to protect the rights of workers when we work together on issues like wage theft.

If we starve the NLRB, bosses can keep starving the workers 😤

[Nick Tillem @NickTillem]

Accessibility isn’t extra steps, it’s steps you’ve missed.

[ACM Education & Learning Center @acmeducation]

Now available for ACM Members: "Docs for Developers," by @jaredbhatti, @zachorsarah, @wiredferret, David Nunez (@stripe), @Jenny__Anne. For sftw devs who need to create documentation alongside code; tech writers, dev advocates, product mgrs, etc. https://t.co/wbDgAegHDU

[C Thi Nguyen @add_hawk]

OK, just had a peak teaching experience teaching Tufte's classic mega-rant, "The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint", in my Tech & Design Ethics class. It went SO GOOD and I kinda want to teach it in my intro ethics class now. And I get it way more deeply?

Thread/story:

[Avdi Grimm @avdi]

We need to have a serious conversation about how much power high-level techies have to "make change from within" at unethical companies.

It's zero. They have no economic leverage. And the narrative otherwise is abuse enablement. "It'll be different this time, you'll see".

[Heidi, Sticker Thoughtleader @wiredferret]

Today’s weird talk at work: lesser-known cryptids!

This is such a great way to get people to practice speaking with lower stress.

Also, SQUONK.

[Creative Commons @creativecommons]

📢 Calling all journalists — we are excited to announce 'Ground Truth in Open Journalism' our new Creative Commons Open Journalism Webinar Series & Training.

💡 Discover what public, open options our news needs + how to use these options.

REGISTER➡️ https://t.co/SMJIPoSq3E

[Arc @arcdotdev]

Recruitment trend alert: transparency.

Remote companies like
@DuckDuckGo, @toggltrack and @remote
are leading the way with their ultra-transparent job descriptions

For more on this trend + and what HRs should consider in 2022 👉🏼https://t.co/w25yhSckWP

[Jen Lambourne @Jenny__Anne]

This book will teach and show you how to write minimum viable documentation for your product. No big budgets, no technical writing team, just you and an ambition to help your readers.

[Jen Lambourne @Jenny__Anne]

We wrote a book! 😱

About 22.5 months and a pandemic ago, a motley crew of tech writers decided to follow our own advice and document how to create good tech docs.

That book is Docs for Developers and it's available RIGHT NOW 👇👇👇

https://t.co/ekt2KP17zv

[The Writers’ Co-op @TWC_pod]

Hi this is your daily #freelance reminder that your rate has to account for taxes, retirement, vacation days, sick days, non-billable hours AND the value of your work.

[Chris Herd @chris_herd]

👨‍💼 Flattened orgs: middle management is in trouble, an unnecessary bottlenecks which serve no tangible purpose inside async organizations

Companies need coaching and facilitators to maximize organizational effectiveness

[Chris Herd @chris_herd]

I spoke to 3,000+ teams about remote working after Covid-19

This is what I learned

[ a thread ] 💻🏠🌎

[Margaret Middleton @magmidd]

As a designer who consults with museums on gender inclusive practice, I am often asked about signage and icons. Here are some of my top recs for easy swaps you can make for a more gender inclusive visitor experience:

[John D Saunders @johndsaunders]

Me as a web designer: man, I can’t find any illustrations featuring Black people. Like fr.

Also, me: ok, let me build this.

80,000 downloads later:
https://t.co/Tvc50E9phv

Thank y’all. 🙌🏾💯

[Academic Audio Transcription Ltd @AAT_transcribes]

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