What I read online #20
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Youth Action Toolkit for LGBTQ youth homelessness advocacy
True Colors United, the charity which implements innovative solutions to youth homelessness that focus on the unique experiences of LGBTQ young people, is thrilled to announce the launch of a new Youth Action Toolkit, to help young persons get started in youth homelessness advocacy. The brand new Youth Action Toolkit was developed alongside members of the National Youth Forum on Homelessness and covers topics ranging from the different types of housing models, to how to start a Youth Action Board, to tips on preventing burnout and prioritizing self-care. Check the announcement and find more information, here.
Map employees’ interaction at work and understand how inclusive your company is
I came across this Harvard Business Review article from 2017 last week, while reading about People Analytics. The authors describe why it’s important to understand that diversity is not just about workforce composition but also about interaction, and make the case for using tools that map and measure these interactions visually!
What it takes to be racially literate
Social entrepreneurs, student activists, authors and public speakers Priya Vulchi and Winona Guo say that if you don't go searching for racial literacy and awareness, it won't just come to you. In talking about how they are working to gain racial understanding, Vulchi and Guo pair the personal stories they've collected with research and statistics to reveal two fundamental gaps in our racial literacy and how we can overcome them.
What racism costs everyone and how we can prosper together
Recently added Heather McGhee’s book The Sum of Us: what racism costs everyone and how we can prosper together on my reading/listening list. The book tackles the concept of racial zero-sum, why so many whites believe that bettering the lives of racial minorities comes at their expense, and how racism is not just a problem for the minority but it affects everyone negatively.
Dior 2022 Croisière show set for Greece
“The house of Dior has chosen Athens, an exceptional destination – the cradle of Western Civilization and European arts – to present the Cruise 2022 collection designed by Maria Grazia Chiuri,” the house said in a release. Dior’s next cruise show will be held in Athens on June 17 “in full compliance with current sanitary measures.” The show comes 70 years after Monsieur Dior, the house’s founder, unveiled a couture collection at the Acropolis, before the Parthenon. Chiuri has now circled the Mediterranean with her cruise collections for Dior. Her previous two cruise shows were in Marrakech and Lecce, in each city staging gala sunset soirées in historic locations.
ThoughtWorks: Macro trends in the technology industry (April 2021)
Monorepos, Platform-as-a-Product, Consolidation vs. Innovation, the fall and rise of SQL and machine learning (ML) becoming mainstream are a handful of “themes” and macro trends identified by ThoughtWorks on their April 2021 Radar report for the Technology industry.
OpenStreetMap data to PostGIS; easier and better
OpenStreetMap to PostGIS" - Easier and Better was recently presented as part of the 2021 Postgres Conference Webinars. Watch this live demo showing how easy it is to import high-quality OpenStreetMap data into PostGIS/Postgres using the osm2pgsql tool!
Data Engineering Weekly newsletter
Every week Data Engineering Weekly newsletter covers news in data engineering and the data applications ecosystem, including data quality, data discoverability and more. I like it because it frequently covers from-the-inside stories about data engineering and management from teams at Facebook, Uber, Airbnb, SFDC, Spotify and others. Check it out.