AUGUST WILL ALWAYS COME BEFORE DECEMBER
Journalism, for all its bells and whistles, shiny business models, is fundamentally built on honour.
None of the big offices, fancy equipment will matter, if the humans are not humane.
Humans make the system.
Where a system somehow leaves a person with no choice but to cry out online, only the humans indicted can make it right.
That I chose to point this out how and when I did, after several private efforts, is my prerogative, as Bobby Brown sang it.
You all can never escape the fact that August came well before December.
What did you all do, then?
What will you all do, NOW?
Keep elevating mediocrity and amplifying discrimination based on ageist, gendered and even racial bias within our systems?
Just as bad as choosing to keep quiet, is choosing to demonise anyone who speaks up. Sadly for you, I'm descended of sterner stuff.
I am not friends with, and do not have to be friends with anyone, to speak out, against faulty systems in my own profession.
August came before December. August will always come before December. No matter how many tweets you spin to make yourselves feel better.
Me?
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WHO is Richard Sharp? The new Chairman of the BBC?
1. Sharp worked for JP Morgan for eight years, then worked for Goldman Sachs, 23 years, rising to chairman of its principal investment business in Europe, .He was Rishi Sunak's boss at Goldman Sachs! Conflict of Interest MUCH?
2. His Sister is, Dame Victoria Madeleine Sharp, DBE, QC , President of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice in England and Wales. Sharp was called to the Bar, Inner Temple in 1979.
3. Richard Sharp, is a Donor (more than £400,000) to the Conservative Party!!! NO CONFLICT OF INTEREST, THERE THEN!!!
https://t.co/I3qtnK3FV0
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1. Sharp worked for JP Morgan for eight years, then worked for Goldman Sachs, 23 years, rising to chairman of its principal investment business in Europe, .He was Rishi Sunak's boss at Goldman Sachs! Conflict of Interest MUCH?
2. His Sister is, Dame Victoria Madeleine Sharp, DBE, QC , President of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice in England and Wales. Sharp was called to the Bar, Inner Temple in 1979.
3. Richard Sharp, is a Donor (more than £400,000) to the Conservative Party!!! NO CONFLICT OF INTEREST, THERE THEN!!!
https://t.co/I3qtnK3FV0
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"I guess it's impossible and I'll never break into the industry."
MAKE PRODUCTS.
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There is no better way of learning the craft of product, or proving your potential to employers, than just doing it.
You do not need anybody's permission. We don't have diplomas, nor doctorates. We can barely agree on a single standard of what a Product Manager is supposed to do.
But – there is at least one blindingly obvious industry consensus – a Product Manager makes Products.
And they don't need to be kept at the exact right temperature, given endless resource, or carefully protected in order to do this.
They find their own way.
make products.
"If only someone would tell me how I can get a startup to notice me."
Make Products.
"I guess it's impossible and I'll never break into the industry."
MAKE PRODUCTS.
Courtesy of @edbrisson's wonderful thread on breaking into comics – https://t.co/TgNblNSCBj – here is why the same applies to Product Management, too.
"I really want to break into comics"
— Ed Brisson (@edbrisson) December 4, 2018
make comics.
"If only someone would tell me how I can get an editor to notice me."
Make Comics.
"I guess it's impossible and I'll never break into the industry."
MAKE COMICS.
There is no better way of learning the craft of product, or proving your potential to employers, than just doing it.
You do not need anybody's permission. We don't have diplomas, nor doctorates. We can barely agree on a single standard of what a Product Manager is supposed to do.
But – there is at least one blindingly obvious industry consensus – a Product Manager makes Products.
And they don't need to be kept at the exact right temperature, given endless resource, or carefully protected in order to do this.
They find their own way.
