Episode 164 - Politics At Work

There was a whole thing this week about Basecamp’s “No politics talk at work” and we felt we had something to add to the conversation. Because if politics is just “stuff that makes you uncomfortable to talk about and means you might have to change something to feel better” then that’s not okay.

Streamed Live on https://twitch.tv/michaelforrest, Friday 23rd April 2021

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[1]Twitter Thread - https://twitter.com/nuthinking/status/1387679571525373955 

[2] Basecamp on The Verge - https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/27/22406673/basecamp-political-speech-policy-controversy 

[3] Ivanka’s post - https://ivanka.blog/humanity/everything-is-not-ok/ 

George Floyd / Derek Chauvin - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2021/apr/20/derek-chauvin-receives-guilty-verdict-and-is-taken-away-in-handcuffs-video 

[4] Virginia deputy gave Black man a ride home, then shot him after 911 call - https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/virginia-deputy-gave-black-man-ride-home-then-shot-him-n1265195 

[5] Cummings Row - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/apr/23/dominic-cummings-launches-attack-on-boris-johnson 

[6] Google tried to stop people talking about money - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/aug/08/google-women-discrimination-class-action-lawsuit 

[7] Amazon’s dirty tactics - NYT podcast - https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zaW1wbGVjYXN0LmNvbS81NG5BR2NJbA/episode/ZjZlMjE0ZWMtNWRhMS00MjU0LTg2YTAtOTliMWYwN2I0MzBi?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwjgw7-v1IzwAhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAg&hl=en-HR 

[8] Purl - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6uuIHpFkuo 

[9] Directional dominance on stature and cognition in diverse human populations - https://www.nature.com/articles/nature14618 

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