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Jo

@jocrossick.bsky.social

810 followers 310 following 400 posts

Tech boss, mum, feminist, EDM listener, constantly curious, often opinionated, doing my best.

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Jo @jocrossick.bsky.social · Jul 15

Precede but supersede. Urgh I hate English sometimes

Jo @jocrossick.bsky.social · Jul 12

Parenting a teen:
Teen: "I'm sorry I love you"
Teen: pause
Teen: "I'm sorry COMMA I love you"

Jo @jocrossick.bsky.social · Jul 10

If you haven't read Utopia 5 yet, I highly recommend it as a deeply thought-provoking exploration of some ideas around privacy and AI. Several years old now, but the ideas are as relevant as ever, if not moreso

Jo @jocrossick.bsky.social · Jun 1

View from a teenage girl:
Most boys are arseholes. It's fine, you can just ignore arseholes. The ones you need to worry about are the creeps.

Jo @jocrossick.bsky.social · May 31

One framing I keep on going back to is this "ask vs guess culture" back from 2017 Lead Dev talk www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxTX...

It's not exactly about language, it's about the cultural way that language is used.

Ask vs. Guess Cultures – Katherine Wu | The Lead Developer UK 2017

YouTube video by LeadDev

www.youtube.com

Jo @jocrossick.bsky.social · May 29

Nice! I haven't yet got my brain to work in a way that allows gen-AI to do writing for me

Jo @jocrossick.bsky.social · May 29

5. Post-cancellation: the subscription service equivalent of texting your ex

Jo @jocrossick.bsky.social · May 29

4. Threaten them with a significant degradation in their lifestyle or happiness if they leave

Jo @jocrossick.bsky.social · May 29

3. Throw in some freebies! They're bound to stay now!

Jo @jocrossick.bsky.social · May 29

2. If we ask them if they're sure, they'll change their mind

Jo @jocrossick.bsky.social · May 29

1. If we hide the cancel subscription button, they won't leave

Jo @jocrossick.bsky.social · May 29

The 5 stages of grief, as experienced by a subscription service you're trying to leave:

Jo @jocrossick.bsky.social · May 29

As a Brit/European, there's something that makes my skin crawl in the simpering, sycophantic tone of most AIs. It's US cultural imperialism but worse for being more subtle.

Please for the love of god someone create an AI that can tut under its breath in a way you can't hear but know is present.

Jo @jocrossick.bsky.social · May 11

Once I saw someone replace "feature parity" with "feature parody" and it was so apt that I wasn't sure if it was an accidental mistake or a purposeful one.

Jo @jocrossick.bsky.social · May 11

I did a blog post www.jocrossick.com/blog/one-tru...

One true original thought

Innovation is your moat in a world of AI... but is that even possible?

www.jocrossick.com

Jo @jocrossick.bsky.social · May 10

Most rules don't really exist. People don't follow them because they choose to, they follow them because they don't realise that not-folllowing them is an option. Following rules is generally good, but do so because you choose to, not because they're there.

Spooky Bunsz 👻 @copaceticbunsz.com · Feb 2

If you’re over 30, quote this with some life advice 🤌🏼

Jo @jocrossick.bsky.social · May 9

I'm coining reverse imposter syndrome: when you blame yourself for the fact that others can't keep up with you.

The smart girls all know what I'm talking about.

Jo @jocrossick.bsky.social · May 8

Yeah I'm really interesting to see it and will be attending with a few of my team.

Jo @jocrossick.bsky.social · May 4

If you're mourning the loss of DEI initiatives, then stop. I've put a huge amount of effort into this space in tech over the past decade and from what I saw they had limited impact. Dismantling DEI programmes is a call to arms - time to get radical, and do stuff that works. Act without permission.

Jo @jocrossick.bsky.social · Apr 15

As a Barcelona resident I've observed that there's a rule for everything, about 1/4 of those rules are seen as sacrosanct while all the others are treated as optional. I don't know if that applies to the rest of the country or to this case in particular, but it wouldn't surprise me either way.

Jo @jocrossick.bsky.social · Apr 6

I have literally no idea who you are or why I follow you, or even if I do.

Jo @jocrossick.bsky.social · Apr 5

Having kids is wonderful, doesn't mean it's not hell sometimes, and most of the time when they're small tbh. There's a very worthwhile discussion to be had in how our society makes the toughest job in the world even harder.

Jo @jocrossick.bsky.social · Mar 19

(Granted I am a little nervous about how I'm going to find 4 hours of Wagner)

Jo @jocrossick.bsky.social · Mar 19

Nobody says "oh I thought you liked modern art so I'm really surprised to hear you're going to the Siena renaissance art exhibition" or "I thought you liked Indian food, so I'm amazed you're enjoying those tacos".

Jo @jocrossick.bsky.social · Mar 19

People at work were beyond surprised that I was going to the opera because they know I like techno. Why is music the only field where enjoyment of one genre presumes exclusion of others?