@engineering_bae Wow that's offensive, sexist and deeply racist. Sorry you had to hear that. No doubt they'll have a whole segment on uNcoNciOuS bIaS 😐
With Twitter's change in ownership last week, I'm probably in the clear to talk about the most unethical thing I was asked to build while working at Twitter.
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Ok folks. It’s time we talked about eels.
I’m a geologist but I recently learnt about eels and… wow.
Since then, I’ve been greeting strangers with ‘DO YOU KNOW ABOUT EELS?!’
Well, consider yourself a stranger in my path.
Strap in. It’s a 🧵
1/so many
My @BBCWorld investigation into allegations of inappropriate and toxic behaviour at Al Jazeera is out today. https://t.co/v1vTEoaR7z
It draws on interviews with current & former employees & documentary evidence. A🧵
I will be reminding people for the rest of my life that Serena already broke the real grand slam record (Steffi Graff’s 22) and that Margaret Court’s 11 Aussie Opens from the 60s when players from the rest of the world just didn’t travel to Australia do not count
Friendly reminder that Margaret Court supported Apartheid in South Africa.
That, alone, should be more than enough for you fools to cut her off from the tennis world completely.
It's 2022. If your team or managers are still referring to equitable and diverse hiring as "taking longer" or "not finding the right people", then it's time to be concerned. 🚩🚩🚩
In May of 2021, I grew even more concerned. I learned that, during a union bargaining session w/the company, “diverse hires” were referred to by an outside proxy as “taking longer” & that it was asserted that “a diverse hire” is separate from “the right hire.”
Them: Can you change the text of this button?
Me: Sure it'll just take a couple minutes
Them: Actually, can you A/B test the changes? We want to be data-driven.
Me: I'll need a data analyst, 2 vendor integrations, 2 sprints, and about 500% more visitors than we have today
It saddens me every time I hear of a PMM leaving their job due to burnout, even more so when they are junior in their career and now completely disillusioned, turned off by the role.
As Product Marketers navigate their next role, here’s my list of red flags in interviews: 🚩🚩🚩