Mike Godwin

Mike Godwin

mnemonic.bsky.social

Lawyer, author, EFF's first hire, Godwin's Law creator (he/him). Retweeting!=endorsing. I tell jokes here, mostly. My opinions here don't necessarily represent any employer or any client. You may have known me as @sfmnemonic on Twitter.

👤 Joined on 02 May 2023

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i don't know how much white people are tracking this but y'all: the degree to which your somali neighbors are scared and hurting right now, and degree to which right wing politicians are going after them in the media and the media is falling for it cannot be overstated

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A reminder to folks that no less than @mnemonic.bsky.social himself created Godwin's Corollary to Godwin's Law as far back as the Charlottesville Riots (the verbatim quote: "By all means, compare these shitheads to Nazis. Again and again. I'm with you.") Today's example of Godwin's Corollary:

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A lot of meetings have people waiting to talk the whole meeting which runs long then ends suddenly. Meetings like Agile #Retrospectives work best when deliberately #overlong with uncomfortable silences encouraging people to say their minds. A good facilitator can usually tease a team into talking.

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As part of my work I have to run a lot of meetings and I've taken to having to say things like, "I need y'all to tell me what I get wrong, interrupting me to let me know is a good thing" otherwise people just wait till way too late to let me know. Like, they wait till after decisions have been made.

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