#connectivelabor — Public Fediverse posts

@adrianco I decided to take this advice, but I took a leadership point of view and brought it up to the entire team instead of just my boss.

In our morning status when we got to the parking lot I asked the team if I could show some vulnerability for a minute. That this was hard for me to bring up, but I have a hearing disability, and use CC heavily. That it gets stuff wrong all the time, and if everyone could please be patient if you say my name and I don't answer right away, because I am reading CC.

This was scary for me. I did this at my last job and everyone got silent and the whole thing got uncomfortable. One particular person blocked me from being given admin. It was a nightmare.

But here, I got heart emojis from the team. People started troubleshooting how to help me in big meetings, the Director was on and also spoke up to ask for me to also be patient with them when they forget, but they are all here to support.

#CPTSD #accessibility #vulnerability #connectivelabor

I've got a new article up on the Resilience in Software Foundation (RISF) website!

This post is an introduction to the concept of practicing together in teams and points to some resources for learning more, including the RISF event this coming Wednesday where we'll play through one of the games!

https://resilienceinsoftware.org/news/11517597

#PracticeOfPractice #Expertise #ConnectiveLabor #CommonGround #SRE #Resilience #Reliability

I've got a new article up on the Resilience in Software Foundation (RISF) website!

This post is an introduction to the concept of practicing together in teams and points to some resources for learning more, including the RISF event this coming Wednesday where we'll play through one of the games!

https://resilienceinsoftware.org/news/11517597

#PracticeOfPractice #Expertise #ConnectiveLabor #CommonGround #SRE #Resilience #Reliability

I've got a new article up on the Resilience in Software Foundation (RISF) website!

This post is an introduction to the concept of practicing together in teams and points to some resources for learning more, including the RISF event this coming Wednesday where we'll play through one of the games!

https://resilienceinsoftware.org/news/11517597

#PracticeOfPractice #Expertise #ConnectiveLabor #CommonGround #SRE #Resilience #Reliability

I've got a new article up on the Resilience in Software Foundation (RISF) website!

This post is an introduction to the concept of practicing together in teams and points to some resources for learning more, including the RISF event this coming Wednesday where we'll play through one of the games!

https://resilienceinsoftware.org/news/11517597

#PracticeOfPractice #Expertise #ConnectiveLabor #CommonGround #SRE #Resilience #Reliability

I've got a new article up on the Resilience in Software Foundation (RISF) website!

This post is an introduction to the concept of practicing together in teams and points to some resources for learning more, including the RISF event this coming Wednesday where we'll play through one of the games!

https://resilienceinsoftware.org/news/11517597

#PracticeOfPractice #Expertise #ConnectiveLabor #CommonGround #SRE #Resilience #Reliability

People will try to game systems because playing games is what people do.

Games motivate us. To game is Human.

Sometimes the game is hidden, sometimes it's tricky and social, but many times we choose to play.

Partnering and making discoveries together leads to strengthening sources of resilience. Building community and sharing common ground are activities wrapped in gameplay.

Playing games together is how humans learn how to grow together, from casual teasing to complex interactions. We long for it.

#SRE #resilience #Gameplay #ToGameIsHuman #ConnectiveLabor

I finished Babel and wrote a review about Kuang's epic about AI that isn't about AI.

#RebeccaKuang #Babel #AI #Revolution #Colonialism #ConnectiveLabor

https://www.sounding.com/2025/08/18/babellingai/

Was sharing this with a friend today, my description of a game called "Wheel of Expertise" that helps teams dig into deep specifics of their systems:

https://www.popg.xyz/2024/05/23/wheelofexpertise/

#SRE #ContinuousLearning #ConnectiveLabor #IncidentResponse #ComplexSystems #WheelOfExpertise #ResilienceEngineering

I saw someone giving people shit because they bother to ask someone else what something means, interrupting the other person's life because they are lazy.

Back in the early days of the internet, we called this LMGTFY - Let Me Google That For You.

I cannot stand this dickish response for the simple reason that I fucking know Google exists, I slaved in a datacenter to make them exist. I am asking YOU because I want to connect with YOU.

But yeah I get it. There are asswipes who don't want to do the footwork. There are privileged shits who want everything in a basket with a bow.

But maybe critics should consider that the person doing the asking is doing connective labor footwork by asking. They're reaching out to someone as a human, to have a conversation, to localize our relationship around a common thread.

#ConnectiveLabor #LMGTFY

I have been engrossed in Allison Pugh's book "The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World".

"Connective Labor" is a new concept for me, and I immediately saw how well it describes what we do in SRE. It is helping me understand my social anxiety as a backdrop against a highly socialtechnical job.

I really wanted to get my thoughts down about this, because it's making a difference in how I look at teamwork. It isn't just a nice thing to have, it is necessary for resilience.

#ConnectiveLabor #SRE #Resilience

https://www.sounding.com/2025/02/21/sociotechnical/

"Whatever calamity strikes, we must never give up our human connections."

#ConnectiveLabor #AllisonPugh #Sociotechnical #Resilience #SRE

https://www.sounding.com/2025/02/21/sociotechnical/

"All you have to do is notice the invigoration you feel when you believe that someone has really understood you during a good conversation." The power of seeing each other! Not just for deep relations #connectivelabor

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/01/harvard-happiness-study-relationships/672753/

"A teacher shortage so acute that students are expected to learn without one" -- this is the outcome of the "better than nothing" arguments for AI. We would solve this differently if we had to. #connectivelabor
https://buff.ly/3XMdeSs

I wrote about belonging today for a research group in Oslo. I had fun linking up my research on kids for Longing and Belonging (2009) & what I'm doing now on how "seeing each other" helps us connect across difference #connectivelabor https://uni.oslomet.no/belong/2023/01/10/on-belonging-sameness-and-difference/

Important and true. And this! "The golden rule of social play is something much more difficult: ‘Do unto others as they would have you do unto them.’ To do that, you have to get into other people’s minds and see from their points of view" #connectivelabor https://aeon.co/essays/children-today-are-suffering-a-severe-deficit-of-play