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Bill Genereux

Why Great Ideas Get Rejected - 99U - 1 views

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    "Despite our oft-stated desire for more creativity, we also hold a stronger desire for certainty and structure. When that certainty is challenged, a bias against creativity develops."
  • Bill Genereux on 11 Mar 14
     
    "Despite our oft-stated desire for more creativity, we also hold a stronger desire for certainty and structure. When that certainty is challenged, a bias against creativity develops."
Bill Genereux

Women aren't welcome on the Internet - 0 views

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shared by Bill Genereux on 06 Feb 15 - No Cached
  • nstead of logging off, Criado-Perez retweeted the threats, blasting them out to her Twitter followers. She called up police and hounded Twitter for a response.
  • Scotland Yard confirmed the arrest of three men. Twitter—in response to several online petitions calling for action—hastened the rollout of a “report abuse” button that allows users to flag offensive material.
  • What I can’t cope with after that is the victim-blaming, the patronising, and the police record-keeping.
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  • I can just about cope with threats
  • state attorney’s office to convict Macchione on 19 counts, one of which was cyberstalking
  • Macchione was sentenced to four years in prison.
  • Despite his pattern of abusive online behavior, Macchione was ultimately arrested for an unrelated physical crime.
  • he officers she spoke to—who thought usernames were secret codes and didn’t seem to know what an IP address was
  • The officers were unanimous in advising me to take a break from Twitter, assuming, as many people do, that Twitter is at best a time-wasting narcotic.
  • Pew found that from 2000 to 2005, the percentage of Internet users who participate in online chats and discussion groups dropped from 28 percent to 17 percent, “entirely because of women’s fall off in participation.
  • Polish sociologist Zygmunt Bauman draws a distinction between “tourists” and “vagabonds” in the modern economy
  • On the Internet, men are tourists and women are vagabonds.
  • Nathan Jurgenson
  • Twitter “has a history of saying ‘too bad, so sad’” when confronted with concerns about harassment on its platform
  • Bill Genereux on 06 Feb 15
     
    An eye opening essay on the challenges of being a woman online
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shared by Bill Genereux on 04 Feb 15 - No Cached
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    We're always looking to connect with talented designers, programmers and writers. We value an open environment. We want to be challenged. We want to try something new and learn something new every day.  We want to help everyone we work with succeed.  We want to control our personal and work schedules. We want to write our own job descriptions and change them from time to time. We want to go on CultureShock trips to recharge our batteries and see the world in new ways. We want to work with the best of the best - people who hold themselves and others to the highest standards.
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Women are leaving the tech industry in droves - LA Times - 0 views

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shared by Bill Genereux on 22 Feb 15 - No Cached
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    Ana Redmond launched into a technology career for an exciting challenge and a chance to change the world. She was well-equipped to succeed too: An ambitious math and science wiz, she could code faster, with fewer errors, than anyone she knew.
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The web's 'echo chamber' leaves us none the wiser (Wired UK) - 0 views

www.wired.co.uk/...online-stubbornness

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shared by Bill Genereux on 24 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • We have reached the stage where someone offering a contrasting opinion is viewed as deliberately trying to wind up others.
  • if you surround yourself with voices that echo similar opinions to those you're feeding out, they will be reinforced in your mind as mainstream, to the point that it can distort your perception of what is the general consensus.
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Is Praise Undermining Student Motivation? | Faculty Focus - 0 views

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shared by Bill Genereux on 05 Jan 15 - No Cached
  • Because failure is one of the most important tools for learning, growth requires a mindset that embraces challenge and the potential for failure.
  • when forced to do a difficult problem they will quickly give up if failure appears on the horizon
  • They start thinking that the goal of school is praise, or grades, rather than learning
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  • isk-adverse in an effort to prevent blows to their self-esteem
  • Dependency on praise stunts growth, creates a fragile psyche, and even a sense of helplessness that undermines achievement
  • educe respect for the instructor
  • praise for effort
  • praise the process, rather than the product
  • praise for process is far more effective than praise for product
  • the goal of education is to reach standards of excellence, not gain teacher approval.
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