Camille E. Acey

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My occasional musings….

  • Why I Have Mixed Feelings About Working from Home

    “Technology has played a major role in eliminating the domestic drudgery that for centuries culturally stupefied women and reduced them to mere servants of men…” – Murray Bookchin, The Next Revolution Like many tech startup workers, one of my work benefits is the ability to work remotely from home or elsewhere. In my case, this Read more

  • Reportback from the 2017 ISE Annual Gathering

    A few weeks ago I had the privilege of going up to beautiful Vermont to take part in the annual gathering of the Institute for Social Ecology. As I’ve mentioned before, I have been delving into the work of activist-scholar Murray Bookchin, and the Institute for Social Ecology is an institution that he helped to Read more

  • Get Out (of the Tech Industry)

    In the beginning, there was the pure, innocent love of the craft. Hands on a motherboard, fingers on a keyboard, you marveled at your budding power of creation. Your ability to conjure something that seemingly wasn’t there before. Then the harder part, earning your stripes, whether it was enrolling in formal education or joining an Read more

  • A Few Mistakes to Avoid if You Want to Get Hired

    As a manager in the technology space, I have the great responsibility and privilege of hiring people into my company. As part of this work, I have to: help write job descriptions, spread the word, parse through resumes, meet referrals, conduct interviews, conduct/attend hiring meetings, write offer letters, write rejection letters, and onboard people. While Read more

  • Disagree and Commit

    From Jeff Bezos’s 2016 Letter to Amazon Shareholders “Third, use the phrase ‘disagree and commit.’ This phrase will save a lot of time. If you have conviction on a particular direction even though there’s no consensus, it’s helpful to say, ‘Look, I know we disagree on this but will you gamble with me on it? Read more

  • Gilles Peterson Interviews The ***Legendary*** Ms. Chaka Khan

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