1/ I just finished reading Zucked by @Moonalice. If you haven't been paying attention to @facebook's incessant fuckery, McNamee's book may be for you.
But, it wasn't for me.
And, I want to talk about why.https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/598206/zucked-by-roger-mcnamee/ …
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12/ This set of beliefs doesn't have a large intersection with the VC/TechBro stereotype. But, I've been here for a year and it's been easy to meet up with people with similar beliefs. (HMU if you're one of them.)
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13/ That's not to say the greed-is-good-in-tech-as-well crowd is absent. They're just not as overwhelming as the salience of inflated and chronically-accessible stereotypes suggest.
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13/ The conclusion to this long, rambling thread? Stereotypes and the fundamental attribution error conspire to frustrate what I hope to accomplish. By myself, I'm a puny force; working with others, I can exert more of it.pic.twitter.com/hnkgqJj736
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14/ Collaboration is harder when your answers to "can someone change?" or "do they have an ulterior motive?" dominates. Skepticism is always warranted. But the benefit of doubt helps bootstrap trust. And everything I want to build revolves around fostering more of it.
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