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March 1, 2020
Decolonizing mental health: The importance of an oppression-focused mental health system by an author (Calgary Journal Online)
Reporting on the People, Issues, and Events that Shape our City - Calgary Journal Community Newspaper

“I think that what has happened in the last 20 or 30 years is that many people of colour have started to just try to survive, understandably,” says Mullan. “The system is really good at having us just focus on surviving so much that we don’t have the time to collectively come together and heal in community, which I think is pretty crucial,” says Mullan.

 

Mullan says that some people need individual therapy and medication in order to thrive. However, she would like to see more collective, holistic healing approaches to mental health as options — the way they were done, and successfully worked, before colonization.

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February 23, 2020
Pay fair – Increment: Teams (Increment)
An introduction to correcting—and preventing—compensation inequity.
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February 23, 2020
A guide to distributed teams – Increment: Teams (Increment)
How thoughtful systems (and lots of emoji) make for happy, efficient teams—whether your desks are distributed across floors, cities, or continents.
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February 23, 2020
Why the ‘business case’ for diversity isn’t working by an author (Fast Company)
What ever happened to promoting workplace inclusion and fairness because it’s the right thing to do?

we are highly unlikely to see these promised trillions. And, such failures may lead to disillusionment with diversity efforts.

 

when there are downturns in organizational performance, believers in the business case are more likely to see diversity efforts as ineffective and to support dropping the organization’s investment in diversity programs.

 

The latest experiments have found that exposure to an organization’s business case for diversity decreased a sense of belonging to that organization for women and for members of the LGBTQ community, which was then associated with lower desire to join and lower performance on the job.

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February 23, 2020
Making the Case for Accessibility — Postlight — Digital Product Studio (Postlight — Digital Product Studio)
In New York City, where I live and work, Domino’s Pizza would be a scandalous choice for delivery over a local pizza joint. In the suburbs of Minneapolis, ...

Common excuses:

  • “The legal precedent is fuzzy at best.”
  • “This affects such a small number of our users. Let’s focus on our core demographic.”
  • “It’s just too expensive.” “We’ve got to get this product out there: We’ll work on accessibility in our second release.”
  • “We’re already months (or years) along with a product that was designed and built without accessibility in mind. Now what?”
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February 23, 2020
Why Six Hours Of Sleep Is As Bad As None At All - Fast Company - Pocket (Pocket)
Getting six hours of sleep a night simply isn’t enough for you to be your most productive. In fact, it’s just as bad as not sleeping at all.

As you can imagine, the subjects who were allowed to sleep eight hours per night had the highest performance on average. Subjects who got only four hours a night did worse each day. The group who got six hours of sleep seemed to be holding their own, until around day 10 of the study.

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February 22, 2020
Accountability vs Complexity (Black Swan Farming)
Ever been “held accountable” for something that you had no control or power over? I’ve previously spoken about how corrosive the words we use in organisations can be. Words matter. ... Read More…

invite folks to take collective responsibility for improving the system, rather than accountability for an outcome that they cannot control or predict

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February 10, 2020
Open source beyond the market (Signal v. Noise)
Keynote on the topic of open source, markets, debts, purpose, and no less than the meaning of life. Delivered at RailsConf 2019. Also available as a long read below.

This is the snowball effect of finding meaning at work. You don’t just have a fixed pie of productivity to divide amongst your pursuits, be they commercial or open source. The pie expands and shrinks depending on your motivation and your mood. When one area of your life is contracting, it often shrinks all the other areas along with it. And when one part of your life is expanding, others often follow too.

 

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Dmitri Vassilenko

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Just another Unremarkable White Dude in Tech.

Keeping notes on things I learn. Writing to think. It’s a mess, but it’s my mess.

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