Swarna Podila (she/her)
@skpodila.bsky.social
Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind. Interests: Developer, Open Source, and Technology Marketing @spectrocloud.bsky.social
I appreciate that Dolly Parton refused to participate in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people, not how you dress.
Almost every team that uses AI to manage their teams, measure team performance, and to do performance evaluations — they remind me of the frogs in a pot of water that is slowly simmering to a boil, but the frogs don’t know they’re being boiled gradually.
MAGA being upset about DEI was totally all about mediocre men panicking about no longer being elevated.
You never see a team member from the Marketing function say: “Oh, Product Management? Pfft...that's easy. I can do it!” “Oh Sales? Pfftt...that's easy; I can easily do it!” “Oh dev? Let me show you how to do it.” So why do those teams claim they can do what Marketing does?!
You never see a team member from the Marketing function say: “Oh, Product Management? Pfft...that's easy. I can do it!” “Oh Sales? Pfftt...that's easy; I can easily do it!” “Oh dev? Let me show you how to do it.” So why do those teams claim they can do what Marketing does?!
the Field of Dreams game has reminded me to once again watch John Mulaney presenting the Academy Award for sound
Buddhism in the wild (photo by Jerry Feldman, Target Honolulu)
The entire background score of #Odyssey is fantastic. But my favorite is still Troy. The buildup, momentum, and the emotion it evokes is indescribable.
7:30AM: it drizzles for about 15 mins 11AM: heat advisory with highs reaching 95F (that’s 35C for non-US lot) Day continues to be very cloudy But there’s only 40% humidity ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Weird weather patterns!!
Opening social media on the Fourth of July be like:
Toddler Plays with Hose
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Kaiser pharmacist says HIPAA law ensures that they need to verify before they can let me pick up meds for my mom. And yet, HIPAA goes out the window when they make me yell out mom’s details in a busy area — and they can’t hear me clearly through the plastic shield so they make me yell louder!!
Chats aren't encrypted, Bluesky will turn them over if subpoenaed. Use @signal.org or @germnetwork.com instead
Bluesky@bsky.app · 3mo agoWhat's up, chat! Group chats are rolling out today in the new v1.124 update. This is our first feature built for communities, and there's more to come.
Study finds interruptions disproportionately aimed at women & minority groups, Black women were 6% of meeting participants but experienced 25% of interruptions. When senior white men were interrupted, their points were still acknowledged or engaged with afterward. hbr.org/2026/06/rese...
Research: What Interruptions Reveal About Company Culture
Workplace culture is shaped less by mission statements or engagement initiatives than by everyday interaction patterns—especially interruptions in meetings. A study of 27 employees and leaders found t...
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That time of summer when I really want my usual morning cup of coffee hot, but it’s way too warm already for that. First world problems, I am aware.
The longer I work in tech, the more I realize that “what’s old is new again”. Terms and terminologies may differ, but the underlying concepts remain the same.
Rewatching HBO Silicon Valley after a long time. That TechCrunch Disrupt episode (S1 E7) gives me a visceral reaction!! Replace all that cloud and mobile jargon with AI and literally nothing in tech has changed to this day!!
TLAs (three letter acronyms) are so prevalent in tech! TIL (today I learned) that BBQ doesn’t mean barbecue. It could either be “better binary quantization” or “bias benchmark for QA”. Glorious.
"We noticed you're using an ad blocker." "Subscribe to continue reading." "An error occured. Enable ads to view site." I promise y'all that whatever I was trying to read is not worth that much trouble. I'll either get it elsewhere or just forget about trying to read it entirely.🤷🏾♂️
Tell me you’re in San Francisco without telling me you’re in San Francisco.
I saw a tea account ask “Why don’t American hotels have electric kettles in them?” and the answer is that we can’t be trusted with nice things
Dan Izzo@izzos.net · 7mo agoWhelp...never using an in-room coffee machine in a hotel again
Chadwick Boseman and James van der Beek both died in their 40s of an illness that's treatable if a colonoscopy catches it but almost no insurer covers them for people under 45, this is what Engels meant by "social murder"
