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Cheryl Yeoh
Personal blog · cherylyeoh.comcareerbusinessstartups
Cheryl Yeoh's personal blog at cherylyeoh.com covers career, business and startups. Since 2011, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Shedding Light on the “Black Box of Inappropriateness””. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Cheryl Yeoh's 2017 blog post during discussions of the 500 Startups and Dave McClure harassment allegations, citing it as evidence. No comment judges the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
breadcrumbs: a series of connected events
Most-linked posts?
- Shedding Light on the “Black Box of Inappropriateness”7 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2017-07-03
What Hacker News says?
- Mz · 2017-10-20
I understand where she is coming from, but I don't know that I can explain it effectively. Even trying to do so tends to get me accused of blaming the victim. To attempt to explain it: One of my criticisms of Cheryl Yeoh is that her BATNA wrt to sexual harassment was that she has a black belt. So, I think she did not feel compelled to try all that hard to make sure to avoid trouble and misunderstandings. She felt sa…
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on “Robert Scoble and Me” Submitted Shedding Light on the “Black Box of Inappropriateness” as a story · 498 points
HN discussion500 startups have several accusers come forward against at least 2 of its leaders[1][2][3][4]. Nobody can necessarily know the full extent of what happened without having been there when each incident occurred but there has been enough information released to see patterns and the accused aren’t exactly denying the events. Given how hard it is historically for female founders to get funding even under the best of cir…
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on “Lawsuit: Sexual harassment ‘victim’ was San Francisco business rival in disguise”Submitted Why Is It Important To Hire Women In Your Startup? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionOK, this is not that hard, people need to understand the rules. First, the heuristics. If it would be extraordinarily awkward and/or conceivably career impacting for someone to decline a romantic advance then that advance should not be made, period, because it represents exploiting a power imbalance (even if unknowingly!) and throwing sex and romance into the situation. The only time in any scenario related to the w…
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on “Lawsuit: Sexual harassment ‘victim’ was San Francisco business rival in disguise”To everyone down voting me: Please don't turn hacker news into reddit. Extraordinary claims require substantial amount of evidence to have any weight. If sexism was rampant and common through out the entire software development industry, more so than other industries, I think we would see a lot of evidence supporting that. Look at the evidence, and form your conclusions based on that. The reason why I discounted Ube…
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on “I Almost Left Tech Today”Just to add to the evidence others are posting, Dave McClure is a fine example and my go-to since people started complaining Uber's scandal wasn't "original enough." [0] https://500hats.com/im-a-creep-i-m-sorry-d2c13e996ea0 [1] https://cherylyeoh.com/2017/07/03/shedding-light-on-the-blac...
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on “I Almost Left Tech Today”For example, take a look at Cheryl's blog: https://cherylyeoh.com/2017/07/03/shedding-light-on-the-blac... How many other women are in a similar situation, and are unable to speak up?
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on “Sam Altman and Y Combinator Bullying Accusations”Related: https://www.axios.com/exclusive-dave-mcclure-resigns-as-gene... https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/03/employee-email-claims-500-... https://cherylyeoh.com/2017/07/03/shedding-light-on-the-blac... This is a big series of stories breaking - not sure why it isn't getting much traction on HN today.
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on “500 Startups partner Elizabeth Yin resigns over McClure situation”
