I went to boarding school at 9. Nothing says "I love you" less than kicking a kid out of their home at 9.
It affected me deeply. I didn't realise it till many years later and therapy.
However, I never felt I fitted in. Ever. To the system. 2/
Quick story of how I see things. It's going to be multiple tweets, so bear with me.
I have privilege. I'm white. I'm male. I was born in one of the richest countries in the world.
My parents had privilege. Its a dynastic thing. They are Tories. This has caused much 1/
I went to boarding school at 9. Nothing says "I love you" less than kicking a kid out of their home at 9.
It affected me deeply. I didn't realise it till many years later and therapy.
However, I never felt I fitted in. Ever. To the system. 2/
But, it showed me a path.
I took that path but my family hated me for it. I cared for them. They are family after all.
I changed direction. I took the blue pill. 3/
I got lost. I started to see life and money as a way of measuring success, as so many do and I lost touch with that humanist used to be. I still 4/
It killed my mental health. I lost touch with the beautiful people that really care about me and tread the right path and live their life that way.
I thought that I was 5/
I left the UK in 2017. I travelled SE Asia. Privilege. 1st Class to Bali.
Let me tell you this - when arriving in Jakarta, you just have to give your passports to a guy 6/
You get your passport back in the lounge.
That's fucked up. I realise that now.
Over the last four years, I've unplugged from the matrix. I've taken the red pill again.
Money and all it can buy you is a dopamine hit. That's all it is 7/
The Tories live for that life of privilege. Yes, it makes life easier for them. But them only.
The suffering in the world is a humanity problem. Capitalism is a problem. By the way 8/
Dogma is pervasive. There should be no dogma.
We are entering a period of crisis. Serious crisis. And it will get worse. This pandemic 9/
We need to look at how we change things. Connect with our essence of self. We are not the mind - we are the awareness behind it.
We must push that message. Incremental change is not going to solve it for our children. It isn't. We 10/
People are the power. Governments are there only at the will of the people. They can be changed, cajoled and downright removed. Should the collective will be there.
And that is where we are at. We must stop being focused on 11/
We have got lost in trying to conquer the Earth, our Mother. Without her, we would not exist. We would not have this consciousness.
We are in difficult times. But those of that believe there 12/
That's my view - I hope it gets some cut 13/
Peace and love x
This is really important. Our kids need change x
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"I lied about my basic beliefs in order to keep a prestigious job. Now that it will be zero-cost to me, I have a few things to say."
We know that elite institutions like the one Flier was in (partial) charge of rely on irrelevant status markers like private school education, whiteness, legacy, and ability to charm an old white guy at an interview.
Harvard's discriminatory policies are becoming increasingly well known, across the political spectrum (see, e.g., the recent lawsuit on discrimination against East Asian applications.)
It's refreshing to hear a senior administrator admits to personally opposing policies that attempt to remedy these basic flaws. These are flaws that harm his institution's ability to do cutting-edge research and to serve the public.
Harvard is being eclipsed by institutions that have different ideas about how to run a 21st Century institution. Stanford, for one; the UC system; the "public Ivys".
As a dean of a major academic institution, I could not have said this. But I will now. Requiring such statements in applications for appointments and promotions is an affront to academic freedom, and diminishes the true value of diversity, equity of inclusion by trivializing it. https://t.co/NfcI5VLODi
— Jeffrey Flier (@jflier) November 10, 2018
We know that elite institutions like the one Flier was in (partial) charge of rely on irrelevant status markers like private school education, whiteness, legacy, and ability to charm an old white guy at an interview.
Harvard's discriminatory policies are becoming increasingly well known, across the political spectrum (see, e.g., the recent lawsuit on discrimination against East Asian applications.)
It's refreshing to hear a senior administrator admits to personally opposing policies that attempt to remedy these basic flaws. These are flaws that harm his institution's ability to do cutting-edge research and to serve the public.
Harvard is being eclipsed by institutions that have different ideas about how to run a 21st Century institution. Stanford, for one; the UC system; the "public Ivys".
“We don’t negotiate salaries” is a negotiation tactic.
Always. No, your company is not an exception.
A tactic I don’t appreciate at all because of how unfairly it penalizes low-leverage, junior employees, and those loyal enough not to question it, but that’s negotiation for you after all. Weaponized information asymmetry.
Listen to Aditya
And by the way, you should never be worried that an offer would be withdrawn if you politely negotiate.
I have seen this happen *extremely* rarely, mostly to women, and anyway is a giant red flag. It suggests you probably didn’t want to work there.
You wish there was no negotiating so it would all be more fair? I feel you, but it’s not happening.
Instead, negotiate hard, use your privilege, and then go and share numbers with your underrepresented and underpaid colleagues. […]
Always. No, your company is not an exception.
A tactic I don’t appreciate at all because of how unfairly it penalizes low-leverage, junior employees, and those loyal enough not to question it, but that’s negotiation for you after all. Weaponized information asymmetry.
Listen to Aditya
"we don't negotiate salaries" really means "we'd prefer to negotiate massive signing bonuses and equity grants, but we'll negotiate salary if you REALLY insist" https://t.co/80k7nWAMoK
— Aditya Mukerjee, the Otterrific \U0001f3f3\ufe0f\u200d\U0001f308 (@chimeracoder) December 4, 2018
And by the way, you should never be worried that an offer would be withdrawn if you politely negotiate.
I have seen this happen *extremely* rarely, mostly to women, and anyway is a giant red flag. It suggests you probably didn’t want to work there.
You wish there was no negotiating so it would all be more fair? I feel you, but it’s not happening.
Instead, negotiate hard, use your privilege, and then go and share numbers with your underrepresented and underpaid colleagues. […]
