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jocrossick.bsky.social
Tech boss, mum, feminist, EDM listener, constantly curious, often opinionated, doing my best.
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I have a lot of opinions on the falling birth rate in western countries, and one of the more minor ones is this: we tell horror stories about later parenthood, and glorify the early years. This is the wrong way around.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Your communications are vague and indirect, and you take a long time to get to the point. This really lowers the impact of what you're saying and leaves people feeling disoriented. Have you considered being assessed for neurotypicalness and getting help with that?

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Getting tired of social media because it's all AI horror stories or political horror stories from the USA. Trying to make interesting observations about the world of work, feminism and software delivery, but struggling to cut through the noise of emotional-button-pushing content

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

I can tolerate some pretty nauseating corporate jargon, it's the sporting metaphors that kill me.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Family life with teens and tweens... Eldest daughter: I think three is the perfect number of kids, because I always wanted a younger sister Us (parents): Err... you have a younger sister?! Eldest: no not THAT one Youngest: I'm not a sister, I'm a pigster

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

I struggle to understand how people can compose or create content with AI. I suspect they have an idea of what they want to say before they say it. Whereas, for me, the act of writing (or talking), is the act of bringing my ideas into focus

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

The thing I hate about hotels is how dark they are. Perpetual gloom in the rings. Why? It's so annoying.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Staying sane in insane times... When faced with something extreme, people tend to either back away or be drawn to it. It's very hard to hold your own position when the ground is being shaken. Every position is defined in relation to the new, extreme, thing

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

My experience with Ryanair recently is that they're leaning into the positive parenting vibe. Instead of checking bag sizes they are instead letting people live with the natural consequence of being humiliated by trying to squeeze their bags into tiny overhead lockers.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

If you're going to take anything from this weird and unpleasant situation in the USA, please let it be this: most of the people who tell you that you "can't do that" either can't or won't stop you when you do, actually, do that. ~95% of restrictions do not actually exist.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

If you're facing your first family ski holiday, may I recommend introducing the ski fairy. The ski fairy leaves special gifts for little children on the dinner table each night, but only for children who managed a full day at ski school.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Ski time. Ladies I am totally in love with my new Head Super Joy skis, they really feel like a ski designed for women. Light, flexible, fast.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

OpenAI complaining about DeepSeek using their work to train its own models has a beautiful symmetry about it

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

So fed up of having to spend the last 8 years dressing processes up as "structures", "culture", or "reasonable defaults" because everyone in leadership is so terrified of bureaucracy, meanwhile team members are just so sick of everything being so hard.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Ok I'm going to say some unpopular things but as a women who has survived and at times even thrived in tech, I've earned it. I'm not worried to see the DEI departments go in tech companies, in fact part of me is pretty happy to be rid. Isn't it clear by now they're not working?

submitted 30 days ago • 2 comments

If you want a really thoughtful, rigorous exploration of what a world with rampant climate change, massive data collection and all-pervasive AI in the mid-near future could look like, please read Utopia 5 by A.E. Currie

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Such wisdom here

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

"Physical world a significant challenge in developing a self-driving car" is a hilarious indication of how tech execs are falling into technology ivory tower thinking. Let's solve world hunger by farming spherical cows in a vacuum while we're at it.

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

Put your money where your mouth is. Fund Wikipedia. Donate monthly.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Clarks shoes email - Up to 60% off your size! Thanks Clarks, but I need them in my size.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

It's come to my attention that some male leaders are apparently struggling to operate in modern companies, and are complaining that they struggle with feeling ineffective and weak, or "impotent" as one masculinist put it.

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

I was going to do a takedown of Zuckerberg's "masculine energy" but when I read what he actually said I really struggled, because there's actually nothing to engage with. It's like a clickbait headline that doesn't actually have an article behind it.

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment