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rability reverse engineering user behaviour on secret it read to me like people were hedging their bets secret users seemed to be operating maybe without even thinking much about it on the assumption that one day due to a data breach or change in privacy policy or sale of the company their activity on secret might be available linked to them to their friends or insurance provider or boss or mom or bank they didn t trust their activity was permanently private and so they acted as though it wasn t that feeling of always being potentially in a spotlight leads us to relentlessly curate how we self present online and that is bad for us it s bad for individuals because we run the risk of comparing our own insides to other people s outsides which makes us feel crappy and sets us up to make decisions based on flawed assumptions brene brown if you trade your authenticity for safety you may experience the following anxiety depression eating disorders addiction rage blame resentment and inexplicable grief erving goffman to the degree that the individual maintains a show before others that he himself does not believe he can come to experience a special kind of alienation from self and a special kind of wariness of others it s bad for society because it makes people feel alienated and disconnected from each other and also because it has the effect of encouraging normativity if we all self monitor to hide our rough edges our unpopular opinions our anxieties and ugly truths we re participating in the narrowing of what s socially acceptable we make it less okay to be weird flawed different wrong which sucks for young people who deserve to get to freely make the stupid mistakes of youth it sucks for people who ve been abused or poor or sick and who shouldn t have to hide or minimize those experiences and it sucks for anybody with an opinion or characteristic or interest that is in any way unconventional yes that is all of us anonymity was one of the great things about the early internet and although we benefit enormously from the ability today to quickly find and research and understand each other as individuals we also need private spaces we need when we want to for our own reasons to get to be predictably safely unbreakably anonymous pseudonymous online that s why i use tor and other floss services that support anonymity and it s why i avoid the closed source commercially motivated ones i trust tor like a lot of people do because it has a track record of successful privacy protection and because it s radically transparent in the same way and presumably for the same reasons that wikipedia is i ve got nothing to hide and oh how i hate that i feel like i need to type out that sentence but i value my privacy and i want to support anonymity being understood as normal rather than perverse or suspect so i m increasingly using tools like tor chatsecure textsecure riseup and duckduckgo i ve been talking about this with friends for a while and some have been asking me how to get started with tor and especially how to use it to access the deep web i m working on a post about that with luck i ll get it done published within the next few weeks tags anonymity collaboration floss privacy security categories social movements why leadership development needs a revamp september 21 2014 10 for the past 15 years i ve been a client for leadership development work both on my own behalf and on behalf of organizations i ve led i ve used the industry a lot and gotten tons of value out of it that said the world of work has been changing pretty dramatically and i can t honestly say i feel like leadership development is keeping pace when i first started getting leadership training way back years ago here are some of the messages i was given the boss should talk less and listen more bosses should practice empathy and learn how to give calm clear actionable feedback rather than yelling or being punitive not everything can be reduced to numbers and deliverables and milestones and targets the human side matters too bosses should practice some degree of self disclosure and let themselves be vulnerable that builds trust and healthy working relationships people should be encouraged to admit mistakes to change their minds and to constantly iterate towards better bosses shouldn t pretend to have all the answers they should be receptive and open to the ideas of others regardless of their position in the formal hierarchy transparency is generally good if people don t know what you re thinking they make up stuff that s way worse than reality those are good messages they helped me think in a more explicit way about the practice of leadership and gave me permission to be the kind of boss i d like to think i d have been anyway but once you poke at them a little it s clear they re built on weird assumptions i was a journalist in broadcast media a totally non command and control industry i d never even had a command and control boss roughly 50 of the people in senior roles in my organization were women and women bosses are widely understood to be more inclusive and communicative than male ones my then organization was 85 unionized and the unions were pretty strong when management wanted to exert its will our most useful tools were influence and persuasion so why were our coaches and trainers putting so much energy into guiding us away from being autocratic jerks eventually i concluded that the leadership development industry built as it is on decades of studies and analysis and practice probably generally has a bias to lag behind reality meaning it s shaped not so much by what s actually happening now or might happen tomorrow but by past experience and therefore it implicitly reflexively assumes an old school boss a guy maybe in his fifties who s smoking a cigar and barking out orders the trouble is that while that may have been the typical boss 50 years ago with each passing day it s less and less our reality we just don t work in command and control environments as much as we used to and to the extent that leadership development is designed to fix the problems of autocratic jerks it is limiting its ability to be useful for everybody else i live and work in the bay area in media and tech everybody i know is experimenting with organizational design and leadership style whether they d say it explicitly or not people are trying to figure out how flat their orgs can reasonably be how to devolve power how to maximize cohesion and buy in and organizational agility gruff shouty boss is just not our failure mode here s the kind of thing people i know talk about how to in decision making balance inclusivity against efficiency and speed how to balance an individual contributor s sense of personal agency against the organization s need for everyone to row or bail the boat together how to maintain leadership accountability while fostering broad ownership and responsibility throughout the organization how to have leadership be accessible to all levels of the organization without drowning the execs or undermining middle management how to create a strong shared work culture without accidentally turning into a monoculture that doesn t tolerate people who don t fit how to in organizations that over value harmony ensure disagreements are openly expressed and worked through how to create an environment that enables the effectiveness of creative talented people who have depression add adhd and or asperger s how to equip leaders from underrepresented groups to manage their imposter syndrome and to successfully handle subtle biases among their co workers how to lead in a period of experimentation when the boss can t pretend to have all the answers these are the kinds of questions that leaders in the tech sector are facing today and as software eats the world they ll increasingly be faced by leaders in every sector there are people working on figuring out this stuff for example i like michael lopp and venkatesh rao and joel spolsky and i think boot camps and foo type camps are useful too but i feel like in focusing on fixing the mistakes of the past the ld od industry itself is erasing rather than helping shape and define new and emergent forms of leadership that s a huge missed opportunity tags engineering executive leadership leadership leadership development management organizational development software development tech industry categories leadership seven awesome travel products for persnickety nerds april 28 2014 2 i travel a lot and i m kind of obsessive herewith therefore my very favourite travel products time tested and iterated upon over the past decade note yeah i am shaking my head as i press publish here i comfort myself with the knowledge that i am not alone lots of people are just as weirdly fussy about this stuff as i am nonetheless i reserve the right to come back and caveat stuff here if i end up being publicly shamed scottevest travel vest with many pockets omg i love my scottevest it has 17 internal zippered pockets including ones perfectly sized for passports and id cards plus built in channels for holding earbud cabling i carry in it anything and everthing that i might need for flying travel documents pens disinfecting wipes nasal sanitizer swabs purell eye drops a tiny flashlight lip balm various adapters and cables sudafed benadryl painkillers zinc lozenges tiny toothbrush and toothpaste a notebook mini kit for repairing things kleenex stain removal pen and immigration residency documents i wear it to and from the airport and leave it in my suitcase otherwise drawbacks none zero variants there are other versions of this vest out there like this tilley one or this from magellan s but i ve never tried them the built in cabling solution is unique to scottevest afaik and that alone would keep me with that company annoyingly women seem to be underserved in this category by everyone with nowhere near the amount of product variety that men get clear vinyl zippered bags from mmf industries i use these to collect together small things in my luggage e g power cables toiletries so they don t get lost these are great transparent washable including in a dishwasher and completely indestructible drawbacks none except i wish they came in additional sizes variants a lot of people recommend just using ziplocs but i find even the thicker freezer ones rip too easily mesh bags and translucent bags don t offer enough visibility into their contents and many offer zero protection against leakage this bag from the container store doesn t pack neatly and over time the brittle plastic creases and cracks this tom binh bag has fabric sides so isn t easily washable wipeable this translucent bag and this canvas bag from arsenal are super durable but neither is transparent and i found them a little bulky if i need something waterproof i use these clear bags from alosak but they re not as durable as the mmf one after a few trips they often tear under the seal tiny clear plastic flip top bottles from muji i have used a thousand variants of travel bottles jars tubes whatever and these are the best they re great for carrying small amounts of stuff like cleanser moisturizer and hair product they don t leak or drip squeezeable so you can get out all the contents translucent which means you can see when it s time to refill drawbacks mouth is slightly too narrow which means you need to use a pipette for non liquids or be extremely patient variants for smaller amounts or thicker products these wee containers from muji hold only 10g and are pretty much indestructible for larger capacity these nalgene bottles from the container store are durable and reasonably leak proof these tiny ziploc bags are great for collecting together and mildly protecting small quantities of dry items like sudafed adaptors usb sticks change buttons stickers or jewelery and this vitamins medication case is rugged and compact gotoobs are really popular but i found they leaked and they were an awkward shape for packing this set of stacking pill containers is also awkward for packing and breaks if you drop it this muji pill box is cheap feeling and flimsy these small nalgene jars annoy me by having lids larger than the part you fill with product and although these small round pill boxes from the container store are pretty good they re a hard plastic and do sometimes crack if dropped packing cubes from ebags frequent travellers are split on packing cubes some find them useful while others think they waste space and weight i like that they offer mild protection and keep my stuff organized and a couple of times i ve been grateful that they made repacking super easy after my luggage got rummaged through by airport security airport security people never actually open the cubes i don t know why i use them for clothes and non fragile equipment gear particularly if it s awkwardly shaped i pack clothes by outfit which is great especially for red eyes because i can pull out a single cube to change quickly at the hotel or airport drawbacks none variants i ve tried a number of variants but they all had drawbacks i colour code by type of content which means rick steves cubes and tumi cubes which only come in black won t work for me you can t colour code with ziplocs either plus they rip too easily i find the eagle creek cubes too heavy and the prominent branding bugs me travel folders cause wrinkles and are fiddly for repacking and they re best for people who are carrying multiples of things like button downs which i am not compression bags cause wrinkles and can be a hassle to repack they re not worth it unless you re super space constrained travel shoe bags really only fit flat shoes not heels or boots and are usually too bulky rigid to be useful i try to avoid carrying extra shoes but when i need to i just wrap them in soft bulky clothing and bury them in the centre of the suitcase portable battery pack from anker at 20000mah this is the highest capacity general use portable battery pack i know of and when i did the math in july 2013 it had the best charge weight ratio on amazon it charges my phone and tablets multiple times before needing to be plugged in i ve never yet fully drained it it lives in my suitcase i bring it with me on day trips and long flights when i won t have access to power and use it sometimes in hotels or public spaces when i can t easily access an outlet it s beautifully designed and built drawbacks too big and heavy to drag around every day supports many laptops but not mine variants this 13000mah charger from powergen is pretty good although i like anker s build quality form factor and aesthetics better i find the anker fits better in my bags than this boxier 12000mah charger from new trent plus i ve had multiple new trent products stop working for me after only a year or so this 4500mah charger from anker is light and small it s good as a backup for giving my phone a single charge and i carry it with me everywhere but i m ...
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