“The promise AI companies make to investors is that there will be AIs that can do your job, and when your boss fires you and replaces you with AI, he will keep half of your salary for himself, and give the other half to the AI company.” — Cory Doctorow
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#Business #Companies #Investors #Managers #Employees #Jobs #Salaries #AI #Quotes
I once had a Mgr.. long ago... She would send little cards with notes of gratitude or kudos.. and she would say something to the effect of 'keep this for later....when you might need to look at it again..."
She knew..
I did keep them. All of them... Still look at them from time to time.
In 40+ years of working in tech - she was the only one that did that.
So many BS, loudmouth, #narcissists #managers since.
"What can #managers learn from Duke and Wisconsin’s basketball teams?
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The lesson many people miss is that college teams are mostly about developing a team that wins. Developing individual players is a part of that, but it is subordinate to developing a team..."
Reading Round-Up 11.21.2026 – Supervisors, Neuroinclusivity, Queer Safe Spaces, Psychological Safety, and Feedback
A little round as I work to get back into the habit of writing regularly. I have been busy. I ran for and won a seat on the Board of Directors for the Iowa Library Association. I’ll step into this role in January, which also means I will step down from the Government Access Committee and the Leadership Development Committee.
The white paper I wrote for the Public Library Association abut adult learners and public libraries was released. You can watch a recording of the webinar here. It was wonderful to learn so much about what amazing work is happening on the frontlines of public libraries.
I’m putting together a list of coaches to recommend to librarians and library managers. If you have worked with a coach and would recommend them, please share. Feel free to send me an email.
I am writing a post based on a question I saw on Facebook this week: “How do you navigate burnout when the root problems aren’t within your control?” I plan to have it out the week after Thanksgiving (US).
I’ll be spending Fall break getting started on the new book and working on ThriveLib 2026!
Here are some things I’m reading and thinking about right now.
When the Support Isn’t There: Navigating the Silent Supervisor from Trevor Dawes
Working without adequate supervisory support creates a peculiar kind of professional isolation. It’s not always dramatic—there’s rarely a single catastrophic moment. Instead, it’s the accumulation of unanswered emails, the scheduled one-on-ones that keep getting postponed or canceled, or the completed project that receives neither acknowledgment nor critique. Over time, these absences compound into something more corrosive than simple neglect.
Bellamy, L., Flores Glosson, A., Glosson, J., Oberlies, M., Runyon, M., & Showalter, P. (2025).Are we implementing neuroinclusive hiring practices?: An investigation for academic library positions. In the Library with the Lead Pipe.
The application and interview process for academic library positions, especially those at the non-staff, librarian level, are often quite demanding and frequently require candidates to engage in processes that are particularly distressing to those with certain neurodivergent conditions, such as ASD or ADHD. As such, the barriers to entry into the profession are often larger for this population, and this can lead to underrepresentation within the academic library workforce. With fewer neurodivergent voices at the table, academic libraries will find it harder to identify the particular challenges that neurodivergent individuals face and the accommodations that could increase their recruitment, thus perpetuating a cycle of exclusion.
Coltman, Z. (2025). Small acts to make safe space: a case study of the Queer Liberation Library as a queer space. Information Research an International Electronic Journal, 30(CoLIS), 366–374. https://doi.org/10.47989/ir30CoLIS52246
Though there is much that could, and should, be done to build queer space into public libraries, especially for multi-minority individuals, this paper argues that small acts can and should be implemented before tackling larger tasks that require excess manpower, funding and time. Though these small acts do not replace the need for larger change, they can be implemented quickly and work to make public libraries safe spaces while larger changes are slowly implemented.
6 Defensive Behaviors That Show Up at Work—and How Psychological Safety Can Help
The language of “fight, flight, or freeze” to describe the body’s instinctive survival responses to perceived threats is commonly understood. But some clinicians and researchers now recognize six distinct threat responses: fight, flight, freeze, please/appease (sometimes called fawning), attach/cry for help, and collapse. While our threat responses originate in our earliest experiences of safety and danger, they don’t disappear when we grow up. They remain deeply wired survival strategies—patterns we unconsciously carry with us into adult life.
And unsurprisingly, we bring these responses to work.”
From a LinkedIn post by Dr. Victoria V
If your “feedback” is about my tone, personality, or how I “make you feel” when I speak up—it’s not feedback. It’s your discomfort with my presence.
#adultLearners #burnout #careerCoaches #feedback #managers #personality #psychologicalSafety #publicLibraries #queersSafeSpaces #supervisors #tone
Nebraska Baseball Hall of Fame in Beatrice recognizes hometown legends https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/441423/ #AlexGordon #amateur #Baseball #BaseballTeams #Beatrice #BoardMembers #BobSteinkamp #coaches #GregSharpe #HuskerBaseball #JobaChamberlain #KenVergith #MajorLeagueBaseball #managers #Media #MLB #Nebraska #NebraskaBaseballHallOfFame #PidPurdy #RonDouglas #SemiPro #SmallTowns #ThadWeber #umpire
Due to some restructuring, it looks like I may be training a new Director at work. He'll be a skip-level... straight from IC.... with some previous but minimal management experience.
I've (very successfully) mentored several #engineering #managers (and a few dozen engineers) in my time. I've even developed, refined and written down my mentoring framework, but this will only be my second -direct- mentorship for someone new to a manager-of-managers role and I expect to be updating/expanding it.
Curious if there's any appetite for this type of material. Would you be interested in a "Crash Course for new Engineering Managers" if I extrapolated one? Or, at the Director level, a "So you need to build a #software department 101" guide?
For those of you navigating the world of organisational meetings next week... a piece of advice once given to me (but sadly I was seldom able to act on it):
Never go to a meeting that can start without you!
No experience needed to manage in MLB these days https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/422573/ #Angels #Baseball #BillMadden #braves #DonMattingly #Giants #HallOfFame #managers #MLB #Padres #rockies #SanFrancisco #SanFranciscoGiants #SanFrancisco #SanFranciscoGiants #SF #SFGiants #SFGiants #WaltWeiss
A #criminal #complaint against #Clearview AI (known for #scraping billions of internet #Photos of people in the EU and worldwide and selling a #facial #recognition system) and its #managers is filed by @noyb_eu.
Several #EU #data #protection #authorities have already imposed #fines and #bans. If successful, Clearview #AI and its #executives could face j#ail time and be held personally #liable.
A #privacy first!
https://noyb.eu/en/criminal-complaint-against-facial-recognition-company-clearview-ai
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) The First AI-Ready Linux for Agentic AI
https://anonsys.net/display/bf69967c-6369-08cd-9a6b-2d0769167180
The gradual, systematic dismantling of #IT #software development began way back in the DotCom Era, the height of the field’s prominence, in the hands of the MBA-shod #managers who could not read an equation, supported by their devoted aides, the database-equipped #recruiters who could not read a technical resume. The sudden takeover by the code-generating #AI is but the coup de grâce for the slowly dying #programmer caste.
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#Casting Networks: Stop Fucking With #Actors, #Agents & #Managers
In this video, Wendy calls out:
– #CastingNetworks and #BreakdownServices for #exploiting actors and reps
– The #unethical practice of charging agents and managers to submit #talent
– #SAGAFTRA’s failure to protect the very actors who pay their dues
– The destruction of union #commercial income by the #nonunionmarket
– The #corporategreed that’s stripping #artists of #fairpay, dignity, and opportunity
@ZenHeathen see, this is what we need to reverse as a "#trend"…
#Managers claim their high bonuses are compensating for risks, yet they almost never face jailtime (Cases like #Skilling, #Holmes and #Shkreli are the exception because 'they fucked richer people over'…) even when they evidently and knowingly run a company into the ground.
Bar associations either have to ban "#AI" or rightfulky see their reputation and legitimacy crater.
"If the #penalty for a #crime is a #fine it's only illegal for the #poor!": Evidently the #penalties are too low!
Make CxOs personally liable for their decisions aka. force them to put some skin in the game cuz #freelancers and #SME|s are forced to do so every time!
Giants announce University of Tennessee coach will be team’s new manager https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/396698/ #appointments #Baseball #BobMelvin #Giants #managers #MLB #ProfessionalSports #SanFrancisco #SanFranciscoGiants #SanFrancisco #SanFranciscoGiants #SF #SFGiants #SFGiants #Sports #TonyVitello
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“In August Google said it had cut 35% of its managers overseeing teams of fewer than three. In September Fiverr, a freelancing marketplace, said it would shed #managers to focus more on artificial intelligence (#ai). Amazon has been trimming all year in its effort to improve efficiency—most recently in July, at its cloud-computing arm. Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg has been complaining about “managers managing managers” since 2023.
And that’s just in #tech. So far this year phrases relating to “reducing #management layers” have been mentioned 98 times on the earning calls of companies in s&p’s global stockmarket index, twice as often as in the whole of 2022.”
#WhiteCollar / #ZeroHourWork <https://archive.md/VfX7I> / <https://www.economist.com/business/2025/10/05/bonfire-of-the-middle-managers> (paywall)
Insider Buzz Suggests Orioles Struggle to Gain Serious Attention from Managers https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/375475/ #attention #Baltimore #BaltimoreOrioles #BaltimoreOrioles #Baseball #buzz #from #gain #Insider #managers #MLB #Orioles #serious #struggle #Suggests
