Danese Cooper was at OSCon doing a version of a presentation that is kinda a call-to-arms for women in technology called Why Whinging Doesn’t Work. She made it more-or-less gender neutral for this event as it no doubt was massively skewed towards the male side of the spectrum.

  • Whinging – complain in a repetitive, incessant way
  • Stop whining, start doing
  • Masks of complaints divert us from our fears
  • Confirmation bias – what you believe reinforces what what you see
  • Move out of your bias a little bit every day
  • Complaining makes you isolated due to the feedback loop
  • Center for non-violent communication
  • Radiate gratitude
  • Don’t focus on the problem statement — focus on the problem itself