Erica Kangas
@ericaashley.com
👩🏻🌾 Tech • Data • Social Impact
🗺️ Boston, MA
👩🏻💻 Head of Engineering @ Scroobious • Mentor, building the next generation of Boston tech talent
🗺️ Boston, MA
👩🏻💻 Head of Engineering @ Scroobious • Mentor, building the next generation of Boston tech talent
Reposted by Erica Kangas
Thoughtful people are capable of asking themselves:
- do I think gatekeeping is the path to shared safety?
- do I think x degree is the only way to select for y behavior?
- is there a reason I think Being Technical never has to be explained or defined?
- who is the one who gets to enforce it, then?
- do I think gatekeeping is the path to shared safety?
- do I think x degree is the only way to select for y behavior?
- is there a reason I think Being Technical never has to be explained or defined?
- who is the one who gets to enforce it, then?
November 16, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Thoughtful people are capable of asking themselves:
- do I think gatekeeping is the path to shared safety?
- do I think x degree is the only way to select for y behavior?
- is there a reason I think Being Technical never has to be explained or defined?
- who is the one who gets to enforce it, then?
- do I think gatekeeping is the path to shared safety?
- do I think x degree is the only way to select for y behavior?
- is there a reason I think Being Technical never has to be explained or defined?
- who is the one who gets to enforce it, then?
Reposted by Erica Kangas
Can you get promoted with "mentors juniors" as a component of that promotion? No....? Then we've really done something specific as a design choice for the teams there
November 3, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Can you get promoted with "mentors juniors" as a component of that promotion? No....? Then we've really done something specific as a design choice for the teams there
Reposted by Erica Kangas
And I've shared it before but our report on the likely harms of AI in education singled out the risks of genAI being used to make decisions or judgements about students that nobody can fully explain - or counter. Yet this is what edtech vendors are now pushing hard nepc.colorado.edu/publication/ai
Time for a Pause: Without Effective Public Oversight, AI in Schools Will Do More Harm Than Good.
Ignoring their own well-publicized calls to regulate AI development and to pause implementation of its applications, major technology companies such as Google, Microsoft, and Meta are racing to fend o...
nepc.colorado.edu
October 21, 2025 at 11:03 PM
And I've shared it before but our report on the likely harms of AI in education singled out the risks of genAI being used to make decisions or judgements about students that nobody can fully explain - or counter. Yet this is what edtech vendors are now pushing hard nepc.colorado.edu/publication/ai
Reposted by Erica Kangas
Also if the ultimate test of "are you a good dev" isn't how fast you work, why should the ultimate test of "is this a tool that helps people do good dev" be "it makes you faster"......?
October 12, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Also if the ultimate test of "are you a good dev" isn't how fast you work, why should the ultimate test of "is this a tool that helps people do good dev" be "it makes you faster"......?
Reposted by Erica Kangas
If you’re rich and not a coward, this is what you’d refer to as a “market opportunity” to dominate a media ecosystem that’s about to be covered in grotesque government slop. To be a pop of color in a sea of beige will be easier than ever. People will flock to it. You gotta be a little brave, though.
September 18, 2025 at 12:31 AM
If you’re rich and not a coward, this is what you’d refer to as a “market opportunity” to dominate a media ecosystem that’s about to be covered in grotesque government slop. To be a pop of color in a sea of beige will be easier than ever. People will flock to it. You gotta be a little brave, though.