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Selena Deckelmann
Personal blog · chesnok.com/dailyprogrammingdatacareer
Selena Deckelmann's personal blog at chesnok.com covers programming, data and career. Since 2009, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Where meritocracy fails”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Selena Deckelmann's posts on meritocracy and do-ocracy in the Portland tech scene. Comments discuss whether merit can be judged fairly and how Portland builds things without seeking permission.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Where meritocracy fails2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-03-31
What Hacker News says?
(My other reply is dead, apparently?) The point is we can’t be truly meritocratic. It’s a utopic ideal that doesn’t hold up in the real world. Those who are deciding what merit is are the ones who already have power. Also, there are many barriers to entry before supposed meritocratic judging can even take place. The goal isn’t to completely abandon the idea of judging people based on their accomplishments, but to re…
Comment linking /daily/2011/03/30/where-meritocracy-fails/
on “Follow up to the investigation results”Submitted Where meritocracy fails as a story · 78 points
HN discussionI wrote the entry that started this thread, and an earlier post that mentions do-ocracy in the context of the Portland tech scene[1]. I totally agree with you, and go even further when it comes to the community that's evolved in Portland. I tell people to JFDI. That usually means someone tells someone else about what they're doing. But there's no permission seeking. We have too many people that find fault in the wor…
Comment linking /daily/2010/03/17/this-town-needs/
on “Where meritocracy fails”Submitted Why PyLadies? as a story · 51 points
HN discussionFeels like most of the people in Portland need to figure out what they want first. At their software industry summit, after a long series of surveys, the takeaway was that people in Portland value quality of life over making more money. That's great, but that's not what's going to drive serious entrepreneurs to Portland. So I'm not sure why this would lead the idea that we need more funding here for startups. And to…
Comment linking /daily/2011/04/05/updatepdx-nosql-operational-complexity-and-hiring/
on “Portland Seed Fund seeks inspiration from Y Combinator grads”Submitted About high school computer science teachers as a story · 4 points
HN discussionClickable link to the survey mentioned in the slides: http://chesnok.com/u/5e
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