Julia Evans @b0rk@jvns.ca
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afaik this paper's main suggestion for how to combat "contest cultures" (admitting you don't know something is seen as weak) and the "brilliance trap" (there's an attitude that people are either "brilliant" or "not") is to prioritize a

"strong culture of shared learning and [emphasize] that all people can belong in software development and should have the chance to succeed"

building a culture of shared learning is my literal favourite thing so I'm very into this

osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/2gej

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cliffle @cliffle@hachyderm.io
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@b0rkJulia Evans in my experience, as someone who is often a "senior engineer," one of the most effective things I can _personally_ do to combat this and encourage a learning attitude is to be quick to say "I don't know," and quick to admit when I'm wrong.

People really do pick up on behaviors like this from "senior" types (or their absence!).

I say this mostly in case anyone else in a similar position reads this thread and goes "but what could I possibly do to shift the culture in this direction"

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