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We’re celebrating Pride this month, and in the interest of pulling some weight and explaining how the work with inclusion and diversity affects marginalized people and how privileged people sometimes add to that burden, I want to talk about a situation that probably happens more often than you’d think. The recruitment talk. Whenever one of... Continue Reading →
I wrote this on a flight from Edmonton to Amsterdam. I was on my way to a new job, back home to Sweden again. I’m leaving BioWare behind. There are reasons for this, and there’s no real reason why I can’t explain what happened and how it happened, but for now, I am choosing not... Continue Reading →
I did some digging lately into both project management and company management. One of the things I found that were seriously problematic, but also emblematic for the games industry is dysfunctional companies and dysfunctional teams. The hallmark of a dysfunctional company/ team are the following five traits. They’re a theory created by Patrick Lencioni. Lack... Continue Reading →
I had dinner with a friend yesterday and he said something very memorable to me when we ate. He said " I know we're okay, because our studio is the first place I've run into mediocre women devs. Normally they're outstanding." While I understand that this sounds not that overwhelmingly great - you kind of... Continue Reading →
[..] for the purpose of this discussion I'm more interested in the kind of attitude that underlies and perpetuates mansplaining. And my answer, in short, is entitlement: entitlement of the epistemic variety, which relates to knowledge, beliefs, and the possession of information. - Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women, Kate Mann Raise your hand if... Continue Reading →
Relatedness refers to the social nature of human beings and the connectedness with others. Both can be considered as being part of the panhuman psychology and both are intrinsically intertwined. - Heidi Keller, Psychological autonomy and hierarchical relatedness as organizers of developmental pathways The title of this blog post, put a dog in there, refers... Continue Reading →
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