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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mastodon.social/users/yvonnezlam/statuses/113584357266477876">Yvonne Lam (yvonnezlam@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Dec-2024 06:21:38 JST</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/@yvonnezlam" title="yvonnezlam@mastodon.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/240297-48-20240204183632.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Yvonne Lam" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Yvonne Lam</a><div><ul><li></ul></div></section><article><p>US tech people, read this by <a href="https://union.place/@riastrad">@riastrad</a>:<br><a href="https://joinreboot.org/p/nearest-neighbors" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://joinreboot.org/p/nearest-neighbors</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/4110527#notice-8031932">In conversation</a><time datetime="2024-12-03T06:21:38+09:00" title="Tuesday, 03-Dec-2024 06:21:38 JST">about 7 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@yvonnezlam/113584357266477876" rel="external" title="Sent from mastodon.social via ActivityPub">mastodon.social</a></span></span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@yvonnezlam/113584357266477876">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/3614259">Modern technology is characterized by an obsession with convenience. Buy a product with one click and have it delivered to your door within a day. Tap a button and have a private car appear at your location in minutes. This mentality isn't exclusive to product offerings. It seeps into almost every aspect of working in the tech industry. Venture capitalists write about “founder mode,” which boils down to founders only being focused on the “big picture” and unbothered by the tedium of any daily administration work. Middle management embraces the philosophy of “Agile” to reduce the friction for shipping new features and delighting their end users. Software engineers are no exception. We talk about “velocity,” that is, how quickly we finish discrete development tasks. Slow velocity on a team is an indication that there is too much friction in the workflow. Convenience and its endless pursuit is the air you breathe at a tech company.</a></label><br><a href="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/584/347/955/070/130/original/65cf1b79f690cd0a.png" rel="external">https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/584/347/955/070/130/original/65cf1b79f690cd0a.png</a></li><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/3614260">When Mapbox leadership fought our union they appealed to our sense of convenience. Over a fraught two months, they made the relentless case for how inconvenient everyone's life would become if our union were allowed to continue, let alone be officially recognized. Leadership put their own twists on classic anti- union phrases like “a union would slow us down and make it harder for us to innovate,” “the union would make it hard to remove toxic people from your team,’ or “we want to fix these structural problems you've highlighted, but it would be harder to implement solutions if we have to have everything approved by the union.” Leadership was effectively outlining the inconvenience of no longer being able to rule the company by decree.</a></label><br><a href="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/584/347/970/840/408/original/4b1b19dc58425e4c.png" rel="external">https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/584/347/970/840/408/original/4b1b19dc58425e4c.png</a></li><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: substackcdn.com</div><h5><a href="https://joinreboot.org/p/nearest-neighbors">Nearest Neighbors</a></h5><div> from <span>Josh Erb</span></div></header><div>Solidarity, startups, and convenience</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Yvonne Lam (yvonnezlam@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Dec-2024 06:21:38 JSTYvonne Lam
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US tech people, read this by @riastrad:
https://joinreboot.org/p/nearest-neighbors
In conversationabout 7 months ago from mastodon.socialpermalink
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