Readit NewsVuongN commented on What I Learned Co-Founding Dribbble simplebits.com/2019/06/25... · Posted by u/doppp
Was reading article while listening to his banjo song: https://dancederholm.bandcamp.com/track/election-day. Good article, fellow Masshol...yman!
VuongN commented on What I Learned Co-Founding Dribbble simplebits.com/2019/06/25... · Posted by u/doppp
https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/26/18759672/dribbble-ceo-zac...
Not sure I'd consider any company good that bans (highly followed) users who disagree with the owners or criticize the site on other social networks.
I read the article and full disclosure, I don't use Dribbble and am not a member. My thought is that temporarily suspending a user based on report from community members is reasonable. Dribbble looks like a very social/community-centric site, I'd imagine if a rogue member were to post inappropriate content, the community can come together and help moderate. This also mean that if community members feel personally offended and take it the other way, and ding someone like in this instance, the site steps in and make it right. Again, Dribbble unbanned him shortly after. I just feel like it's a non-issue-but that's just my opinion.
VuongN commented on Tech Friends: Let's Get Rid of Workplace Bullies medium.com/@vuongn/tech-f... · Posted by u/VuongN
Disclaimer: I posted a draft of this last week. Got some feedback and had since updated the article. I've also moved the article to Medium for a bit more eyes. Not personally trying to gain anything, just wanted to raise some awareness about the issue. Thanks.
VuongN commented on Tech Friends, Let's Get Rid of Workplace Bullies vuongnguyen.com/tech-frie... · Posted by u/VuongN
There seems to be a real push towards homogeneity in teams, and I've seen it lead to bullying of people with different skills.
At one point I was working with a guy who had a prototype of a complex clustering algorithm. He did a great job prototyping it in MatLab, but the company decided to have him implement a distributed version of it in C, and they pushed him unreasonably hard. I tried to convince them to leave him alone, since I and others had the skillset to get that part done, but they kept after him, and eventually killed the project and fired both of us.
This was at Autonomy; we all had a "now I get it" moment when the fraud news came out.
Doing tech, especially tech startups for a while and some day you wake up thinking to yourself: if we pool all our skills together, we could build the world we ought to have by the end of next 'sprint'--But why are we all stuck building sand castles after sand castles? Yeah, when the hivemind takes over and everyone is afraid to speak up, that's when we can no longer innovate. It's great to find like-minded team mates, it's not so great when people are afraid to speak their minds due to fear of being an outcast.
VuongN commented on Tech Friends, Let's Get Rid of Workplace Bullies vuongnguyen.com/tech-frie... · Posted by u/VuongN
Excellent - Like the author, I was a victim of Bullying too at the same place - but, I retaliated when the bully was directed to me and the line was crossed - spoke up defended myself from the bully
In the workplace - lets have a conversation not a confrontation
Absolutely agree with you on starting conversation. Both you, me and a lot of our tech friends can use our skills as armors and shields. Unfortunately, many of our colleagues are a little more vulnerable especially since most startups often do not have a full-fledge and empowered HR department. I hope that we can start speaking up more and coming into defense of these colleagues sooner to prevent workplace bullying from taking shape in the organizations we're a part of. Thank you again for speaking up, my friend!