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mbbroberg

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Tech nerd into cognitive psychology and systems of thought. Work as Director of Product Management – Production Engineering. Into scaling systems & psychological safety. Contributor and creator of communities (but on hiatus while I learn to parent). Most importantly a new dad, disc golfer, cook, open source enthusiast 🐣🥏🍜🐈

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matthewskelton, to random
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"That impulse to scour away the messiness that makes life resilient is what many conservation biologists call the “pathology of command and control.” Today, the same drive to centralize, control and extract has driven the internet to the same fate as the ravaged forests."

We Need To Rewild The Internet
By MARIA FARRELL AND ROBIN BERJON

https://www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild-the-internet/

mbbroberg,
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@matthewskelton what a beautiful quote! Excited to read this 😍

grimalkina, to random
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Deeply and profoundly annoyed by the fact that after working so much on how fears emerge in software team changes and giving advice about behavior change, I automatically premortemed MYSELF about some changes and then had to do a self-efficacy intervention on myself 😑 and it worked 😑😑

mbbroberg,
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@grimalkina this is why I have the muller-lyer tattooed on me—it never ceases to amaze and annoy me that knowledge can’t protect me from my (fast thinking) self ☠️

mbbroberg, to random
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I’m excited to share I’m now the director of product management for cloud platform engineering 🥳

I’m going to be spending a lot of time looking at how people actually run software on the landscape and build modern storage experiences for containers. The biggest learning opportunity is exploring the intersection of and . If I know people exploring one or both, hit me up 🤙

josh, to community
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New reading material just arrived 🤩 Thanks, @ntnsndr!

Learn more and get your own copy of Governable Spaces at https://nathanschneider.info/books/governable-spaces/

mbbroberg,
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@josh ooooo tell me what you think! I’d check that out if you’re enjoying it as well

grimalkina, to random
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I have ✨ a new preprint ✨ to share!!

This is a scientific review paper which seeks to provide a map, an entry point, and a call to action for improving the lives of the people who create software:

"Psychological Affordances Can Provide a Missing Explanatory Layer for Why Interventions to Improve Developer Experience Take Hold or Fail"

You can download it free and open access here:

https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/qz43x

mbbroberg,
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@grimalkina what a well articulated tension that I have to walk in my day job and appreciate you for saying so clearly

grimalkina, to random
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Really enjoying the writing in this paper on visual explanations + causality learning and our clever ways of designing them. From Holly Huey and collabs (2023), has a lovely momentum right from the first sentence:

"From infants exploring the objects in their immediate environment to scientists exploring the frontiers of our solar system, humans are driven to understand how things work and use that knowledge to generate desired outcomes"

https://hollyhuey.github.io/assets/studies/causaldraw_cognition.pdf

mbbroberg,
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@grimalkina oh this is awesome to see — I want to work on a masters in cog sci(?) with diagramming as a way to align understanding of complex systems ( , being favorites). I’ve been in industry forever — is there a term for this type of focus?

mbbroberg,
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@grimalkina thank you! I am so appreciative for the guidance and to find folks to learn from (like you). This made my day.

mbbroberg, to threads
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any way to tell if an instance supports interoperability with ?

mbbroberg, to random
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Just wrapped up our daughter’s 2nd birthday party and it was equal parts adorable and draining in the moment but pure joy right after.

Keeping that positive energy and appreciating the moment is a skill I’m building. These moments held reinforce it’s all worth it.

mbbroberg, to opensource
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I'm getting deeper into 's community plugins and it's scratching my itch as I find the right combination of tooling to make my days easier to manage and interconnected. Thank you for what you build @obsidian 👏

mbbroberg,
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@violetmadder @obsidian ohhh I love how clean those clusters are. I only just started to play with customizing the graph view in Obsidian and I'll keep Kumu in mind as inspiration, thanks

mbbroberg, to productivity
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"More than two hours a day in meetings is the tipping point at which a majority of workers say they’re spending “too much time” in meetings, with a similar pattern emerging across all job levels."

Wat. People have fewer than 2 hours of meetings a day? 😅

https://slack.com/blog/news/the-surprising-connection-between-after-hours-work-and-decreased-productivity

mbbroberg, to blogging
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Having a morning where I've been up since 5am with my toddler, thinking about how I miss regularly , , -ing and also value my focus on and more than that output. I'm tired, but I'm happy. I miss meeting more of you all through our choice to share public, but I still appreciate what I'm reading. One day sharing will be more part of my day again, I know that. But that time is not today.

Gargron, to random
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I can't wait to show you the winter Mastodon mug. I'll have pictures soon. Don't want to spoil the surprise before it has a physical form.

mbbroberg,
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@Gargron if I can order it in a 24-36oz size I’ll be buying one 🦣

ben, to random
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I'm a technology and product leader, serial startup founder, ethical tech practitioner, and open source veteran, looking for my next adventure. (US-based only.) https://werd.io/2023/im-looking-for-a-new-adventure

mbbroberg,
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@ben I don’t know you personally but very much enjoy finding you here. Best of luck—feel free to connect on LI too if it’d be helpful

luis_in_brief, to random
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I think I've asked this before but maybe not - if I wanted to run a wiki, but not self-administer and also not have vast amounts of ads (ie fandom is right out), what's the best option? Willing to pay a reasonable amount.

(Mediawiki disfavored unless the hosting option includes Visual Editor; wiki-ing can be pretty lightweight—eg a good wiki plugin + page-centric configuration for Wordpress might work?)

mbbroberg,
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@luis_in_brief Notion makes for a pretty excellent wiki in my experience. GitHub repo-based wiki came to mind for lower tech.

mbbroberg, to mastodon
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I don’t think I hear enough about how nice it is to know isn’t monetizing my every click.

It’s odd at first, but then it feels like it should be that way everywhere in the internet.

mekkaokereke, to random
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♥️♥️♥️Shoutout to the staff of the hotel I stayed at for expertly de-escalating a Karen situation!

♥️♥️♥️And shoutout to the white hotel guests that stuck around to make sure that hotel security heard exactly what she was trying to do. My favorite comment: "Wow! A Karen situation in real life! I've only ever seen these online! This is surreal! What is she thinking?"

End result, yours truly did not get kicked out of the hotel for no reason, and feels slightly better about the state of the world.

mbbroberg,
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@mekkaokereke good god, I’m so glad I know the ending already bc this is cringy

tqbf, to random

Holy Jesus God almighty this story about a random pedestrian bridge in Minnesota. https://tylervigen.com/the-mystery-of-the-bloomfield-bridge

mbbroberg,
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@tqbf ohhh bookmarking this one! I’m nearby and this is fascinating

peterbutler, to discgolf
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OK, Mastodon disc golfers

Who is willing to share their secrets of good putting?

Particularly at ~30 feet

Somewhere between 25 feet and 30 feet the put goes from “oh yeah” to “uh oh” 😬

How did you learn to be a great disc golf putter?

mbbroberg,
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@peterbutler I finally feel confident from that distance but know it’s so personal. Mine started dropping when I found a form that included a confident rocking forward motion from my legs/core and grew to trust the fade.

What’s your understanding of what’s going wrong?

BoredomFestival, to random
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Irony meter explodes https://www.thenationalnews.com/business/technology/2023/08/05/tech-firm-zoom-tells-its-staff-to-return-to-office/

mbbroberg,
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@BoredomFestival so amazingly ironic. Unfortunately the article takes an anti-remote stance, quoting a questionable study and worrying about real estate being lonely. It’s all too common of a narrative these days.

mbbroberg, to privacy
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This Zoom terms of service update is wild. Can anyone elaborate on what it means in practice?

Can they recreate our likeness and voice via AI without further consent? Is this update mean they’re not HIPAA compliant?

Would love a more educated read on it.

mekkaokereke, to random
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sigh we're still talking about this I guess...

Jamie Foxx didn't say something anti-semitic. He said something people thought was anti-semitic.

Because they weren't familiar with his phrase, and he wasn't familiar with the anti-semitic dog-whistle.

He apologized for being misunderstood, not for being anti-semitic.

Yes, it is very good that he clarified.

mbbroberg,
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@mekkaokereke I sincerely appreciate how he handled that. He stepped into a common trope with “they” there, but he was also clearly hurt and upset as he posted. I respect his ability to shift from hurt to empathy so quickly.

grimalkina, to random
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Across about ten things this week, I'll say this: mastodon has a real toxic reply guy culture going on and it is exhausting to receive this EVERY SINGLE TIME you dare say something that gets attention, as a marginalized female scientist. Worse to me tbh than typical trolling because it is so deeply rooted in credibility deficit "know your place" patterns. You all are worse than birdsite for me, where I have nearly five times more followers. Definitely thinking about leaving.

Fix your hearts.

mbbroberg,
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@grimalkina I so feel this and am sad about that culture here. I’ve found less bad faith arguments but a hell of a lot of noisy if I share something against the grain. I hope it can get better and I know you deserve better 💙

mbbroberg, to random
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Today I said “I use words intentionally or i intentionally misuse them for amusement” and I’ve never explained myself more concisely

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