Mairead O'Connor

Lives in St Albans with @matwall and Emily. Works at AND Digital in London. She/her.

[Mairead O'Connor @maireadoconnor]

My talk from QCON London about how @EqualExperts are challenging traditional ways of working - "People Are More Complex Than Computers" https://t.co/JPMwgCbJ4L

[Tom Peters @tom_peters]

Slightly elaborated version.

[Yogi @YogiKulkarni]

You have to start celebrating "uneventful releases"...

The team having a relaxed lunch on release-day confident that their systems work correctly and that they've built the safety nets and tooling to fix things quickly if needed.

5/n

[Wes Kao 🏛 @wes_kao]

Most people suck at managing up.

They waste their boss’ time with too much (or too little) information.

Here’s how to give the right amount of context:

[Katy's Shit Cartoons @KatysCartoons]

Atoms are binary. They are either intended to be hydrogen or helium. We can't just scrap this worldview just because of a handful of exceptions

[Runnymede Trust @RunnymedeTrust]

In the last 24 hours, 3 horrendous cases of institutional racism have come to light 🧵

[Mitra Raman @ramannoodlez]

Giving feedback is easy.

Giving good feedback is SO hard.

I’ve coached many low performers and given feedback on technical + behavioral situations. Some didn’t go the way I planned.

But over time, I learned how to structure + deliver it well.

6 Tips I’ve Learned ✍️

[Mairead O'Connor @maireadoconnor]

The best piece of advice I’ve ever received? "Do you want to win an argument, or do you want to get something done?" #IWD2022 https://t.co/yVZjt9mduA

[AND Digital @AND_Digital]

Proud to see our own Annem in this great panel! She's been making huge contributions to our culture here at AND - nurturing the next generation of tech talent and making big waves in Cloud as a DevOps Rising Star of the Year finalist.

[mimi smartypants @mimismartypants]

If you are hiking in a group and waiting for slower people to catch up, don't start walking again when they do catch up, because then you got a rest and they didn't.

I think about this tip a lot, in many different contexts.

[Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @MayorofLondon]

Let’s be absolutely clear: Ukrainian civilians looking for refuge should not be filling out complicated visa applications when they are fleeing a war zone. London has a long history of giving asylum to those in need. The Government must urgently provide safe routes for sanctuary.

[Babble @Babble____]

Yooo @ukhomeoffice where you at?

[Mairead O'Connor @maireadoconnor]

Today is International Day of Women and Girls in Science. I’m featured in JAXenter talking about how old stereotypes in the tech industry are (slowly) changing https://t.co/rSUc3XsyTn

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

You'd think the highest-paid sw engineers spend most of their time writing code.

If you observed them, you'll find they read a lot of code and documents, talk with lots of people, and think a lot.

Then they do what helps the business the most. And it's often not writing code.

[Scott Lynch @scottlynch78]

I. The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the bump, bump, bump, on the back of my head as I am dragged down the stairs behind Christopher Robin. Bump, bump, bump, driving the things I have seen out of my mind. I do not wish to stop bumping. I do not wish to remember!

[Mairead O'Connor @maireadoconnor]

@paul_haine “Which Paul?”