Anil Dash is speaking to software developers, but he may as well be speaking to people in edtech as well. "It is grim right now," he writes, "About as bad as I've seen." It starts at the top. "Every major tech company has watched their leadership abandon principles that were once thought sacrosanct... (or) dire resource constraints or being forced to make ugly ethical compromises for pragmatic reasons." He recommends people learn about systems and about power - and in particular, "your first orders of business in this new year should be to consolidate power through building alliances with peers, and by understanding which fundamental systems of your organization you can define or influence, and thus be in control of." In addition, consider working "in other realms and industries that are often far less advanced in their deployment of technologies," especially where "the lack of tech expertise or fluency is often exploited by both the technology vendors and bad actors who swoop in to capitalize on their vulnerability."
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