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Movement I'm Learning More About

The Center for Humane Technology (formerly known as Time Well Spent)

Introduced to Tristan Harris and his work through the Tim Ferriss podcast. What's really interesting to me is our role as engineering leaders.

Some of the factors of inhumane technology are likely in our direct control: delivering secure applications that don't expose users to risks, for example.

What about those that aren't so much? What about when the products we're working on, whose product features are often designed and decided on by our business partners outside of engineering, are inhuman? Where does our responsibility and our reasonable expectations to influence end? Does a successful career as an engineering leader mean you have to risk getting (and actually get) fired a few times to stand up for what's right? What about when your whole team's jobs might be at stake as well as yours... then what? Etc.

posted in Ethics of Technology