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Katherine Maher
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@krmaher@mastodon.social | Previously CEO . Now 🤔 various places. Human curiosity, generosity, and dignity. She/her.
international watersJoined September 2008

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Okay last gripe. WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE between a remote workforce and a large corporation with many offices. Answer: we zoom from our bedrooms. Anyone who has worked in a company with multiple locations knows that someone somewhere is always remote to you.
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Don’t get me wrong. I’m an office person! When I had the choice of working from home versus going to the office, I went in probably 95% of the time. But I ran a remote organization and this sort of grumbling is a failure of empathy and imagination.
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And the line about quick answers to questions when one can stroll to a desk kind of belies that point. Office work is ALL interruptions, all the time. Also, the author appears to be unfamiliar with Slack and the myriad other ways of summoning attention.
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The argument that working from home has greater distractions than an in office job is clearly written by someone accustomed to the luxury of a dedicated office with a door that shuts and a personal assistant gatekeeping your calendar
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I particularly like the entirely speculative and gratuitous hand wave about SVB potentially failing because *the employees were working from home* rather than because the CEO lobbied to lift regulatory supervision or the execs and board failed to adequately supervise risk.
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So excited to be teaching this Fellowship along with and others at . This is the course I wish I could have taken when I was younger. Now these amazing students will share theory and practice of tech policy ❤️↘️
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Meet our inaugural class of Tech Ethics & Policy Summer Fellows! These fellows will work across various government agencies, think tanks, and legislative offices in Washington, D.C. to better understand how the U.S. government enacts tech policy. stanford.io/3ymCPqb
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I am giddy to be launching our whitepaper today. It feels like the beginning of the most important work I’ve ever contributed to. And it’s an absurd, extravagant honor to be working on this alongside my dear friends, allies, and intellectual heroes.
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Today, we are publishing the Collective Intelligence Project whitepaper, our R&D agenda for transformative tech governance. It is our contribution to what we see as one of the world’s biggest problems. We couldn’t be more excited to share it with you. 1/ cip.org/whitepaper
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What horrible news from Turkey. I hope that the world still has the capacity to respond generously to what is no doubt going to be a significant humanitarian need.
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Been trying for weeks now to get an issue with resolved, but the back and forth feels like a group text friend fight. It should not require this much emotional energy to get a prescription reassessed.
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Blake gave me my first real analysis commission, to write about the geopolitics of internet policy. This is so shocking and sad. I’m so sorry.
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I am so shocked and so sad to hear about the tragic death of Blake Hounshell (@NYTBlake @blakehounshell.) I met him in Cairo when I was 22, on the day I got my very first newspaper job. I was excited when he joined The Times and wish I’d spent more time hanging out with him here.
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Watching CSPAN and that wailing baby in the House chamber is all of us. Or maybe just the holdouts. Unclear whom to project this on.
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Rep Quentin Williams was the model of a public servant and his tragic death has us all in mourning. Q was a dear friend to so many in government and his community. His smile lit up a room, and he was admired and respected by all. We send our deepest condolences to his family.
State Rep Quentin Williams poses with arms folded at the CT state Capitol.
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Tonight I’m really worried about a friend who has been fighting an infection. It’s hard to sleep. I hope tomorrow brings better news.
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I don’t mean this in a conspiratorial way, but in the sense that everyone who pitches an op-Ed has an agenda. They’re selling themselves, their company, their point of view.
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As always with a @nytimes opinion piece, the question is: what is the author selling?
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In this case I'm guessing consulting services and expertise to friendly legislative offices, those interested in riding the usual stalking horses to a reinvigorated encryption debate. So, your friendly reminder that encryption makes the internet secure!
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Does the routinely give that much space to non-profit's mission takedowns? Like, here's how XYZ undermines the sustainability of national health systems in developing nations? Or, ABC's mission is thinly veiled racially coded NIMBYism in the guise of conservation?
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Can't be too safe. That's why I secured that sub-market sweater in a box, taped it real tight, tied it up with more ribbon, and then hid it out of sight under a tree.
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If it feels like cozy sweaters are more expensive this year, well…they are. “I would be cautious of sweaters that are below $400,” says one expert. on.wsj.com/3VhEcj0
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