Tracy Chou 🌻
@triketora
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building @blockpartyapp_ to help you deep clean your social media. previously eng @pinterest @usds @quora ➡️ https://t.co/n7C9S0SR6o on bsky
brooklyn, ny
Joined January 2009
the best part of being on the @TIME women of the year list is making my mom proud 💖 . the next best is the incredible honor of being in the company of these amazing women, all working towards a more equal world. they are all heroes to me 👇🏻 .
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when i first moved to london, i kept wondering why people didn’t sprint to catch the train when they heard it coming… then i realized the tube comes every 1-2 min instead of every 20 min like the f train i took in nyc.
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random little fun fact: kamala harris and tim walz are both 60 this year, which means it's their chinese zodiac year and they're both dragons. we got a double dragon ticket here, v lucky 🐉🐉.
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deeply regretting the terrible mistake of booking an airbnb for my holiday. airbnb is now essentially inferior to hotel in every way: price, convenience, cleanliness, comfort, amenities. and reviews can no longer be trusted for anything.
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i’m mad that everything about the internet that was fun & useful 10 years ago is broken now. this site, obviously. reviews are astroturf lies. search is ai hallucination. no place to share with friends & family without influencer / meme / polarized content overrunning the feed.
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i think we should stop giving our ai bots female names (alexa, siri) and give them names from the old white boys club (john, james, chad) in honor of how overconfident and annoying they are even when they’re completely wrong or making stuff up.
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in 13 years on twitter i’ve never had a post removed, and in 3 weeks on mastodon i’ve already had something taken down for racism and sexism, ok
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duo showing up on my app screen today like a puckered old fart, there is no place safe from duolingo’s marketing team
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everyone should know katalin karikó's name. she is the woman behind the mrna research backing the two frontrunner covid19 vaccines, which she doggedly pursued despite being treated absolutely miserably and disgracefully by upenn
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another variant on meritocracy myth: i used to think i could get ahead of the disrespect & misogyny i experienced as a woman in tech by working really hard and getting really good at what i do. HA now i know that my being competent makes insecure men even more resentful and mean.
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honestly how did engineering titles get so inflated that people with 2 years of experience are “senior engineers”.
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@GergelyOrosz can confirm, i have been the female interviewer that was totally dismissed or ignored multiple times. bummer was when hiring managers rejected my feedback on this / told me it wasn’t salient….
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if you are not a software engineer and have not worked on consumer web scale distributed systems, consider that maybe you have no idea how they work.
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can’t wait for checkout and to be scolded for not cleaning the apartment despite paying a cleaning fee, that’s always the cherry on top of airbnb experiences these days.
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amongst the most obnoxious and bothersome messages i get are from the “woke” dudes who are so utterly condescending and sexist they think it’s helpful to tell me how i could be more attractive to men like them by not calling out the patriarchy’s shit
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this tweet brought to you at 1:30am by non functional ac, loud apartment noises, dirty sheets on a pullout mattress, and a very grumpy me after immense logistical inconvenience with parking and key handoff.
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i should make a tshirt out of this to wear to tech networking events
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Woman Fired For Flipping Off Trump’s Motorcade Receives 453,673 Job Offers
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men get promoted on potential, women on past performance, is it so surprising there are massive gender disparities.
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wordle has set valentine’s day gift expectations high for the partners of software engineers 👀.
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excuse me what the fuck, how many poc and woc specifically have been working on this problem out of deep personal understanding and motivation and this is how the funding goes??
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I JUST REALIZED HER GUIDANCE WAS ALL CHATGPT HALLUCINATION THAT SHE ATTEMPTED TO PASS OFF AS HER OWN INSTRUCTIONS god fuck her and fuck stupid gen ai bullshit ruining our lives.
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addendum: the airbnb team has been very kind to follow up and offer a refund and rebooking assistance (though i am opting for a hotel for the rest of this trip). scaling quality, in a marketplace with distorted review dynamics, is hard. good luck to them in figuring it out 🍀.
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Awkwafina is the first Asian woman to host SNL in eighteen years
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hate to break it to you but technology doesn’t magically solve social issues.
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The mostly white men who built social networks did not recognize the danger of harassment, and so the things they built became conduits for it. If there had been women or POC in the room, there might have been tools built to protect users from the get-go.
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congrats to all the young people but can we also give a massive shout-out to the older women in tech who have survived all the bullshit and are STILL AROUND it’s like hunger games survival skills to still be here after 10, 20, 30+ years.
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i wish someone had told me that one of the perils of being a female founder is the male (romantic) partner who tries to undermine your business efforts bc they don’t like your ambition.
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honestly a little tired of men telling me i’m intimidating. why are you so intimidated?.
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A new report finds that using humor in the workplace raises the status of male employees but has the opposite effect for women.
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a behind the scenes look at how internet search is being destroyed as we speak.
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so many people want to be advisors, where are the people who want to actually do things.
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dentist’s office called to confirm my appt and insurance details: “are you on your insurance plan or your husband’s?” . thanks actually i’m on my own insurance plan provided by the company where i am founder & ceo and that i started in no small part to fight misogyny & sexism.
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once upon a time as an early career working woman i was very gungho about reading all the trendy business, management, startup etc books and now i’m just so tired of it all i can only stand to read fiction. anyone else. ?.
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just got told to “go back to beijing” by random middle aged non british euro white dude on streets of london after i rejected his “hi china wanna marry” proposal with “fuck you”.
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On Tinder, the top 20% of men are competing for the top 78% of women. The Gini coefficient for the “Tinder economy” is 0.58, which means that it has higher inequality than 95% the world’s national economies.
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idea: does someone want to make a 50 over 50 list for tech? i would love to see more senior role models!
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energy management is so much more important than time management. what gives you energy, and what drains you? make sure you have enough energy for the important things.
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my prayers are with anyone who has ever had to work with this turd.
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The former lead designer of Gmail just fixed Gmail on his own
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so fucking tired of people like this throwing around the very stupid very wrong assumption that hiring folks who aren’t white men means lowering the bar and “overriding” merit.
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When you finish a PhD in computer science, they take you to a special room and explain that you must never use recursion in real life. Its only purpose is to make programming hard for undergrads.
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icymi tl;dr i did an ama on reddit last week and it turned into a complete cesspit of toxicity with 4k+ comments from the troll brigade demonstrating perfectly why i'm working on @blockpartyapp_ and also why silicon valley culture is so fucked 1/
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this is an utterly uninspiring story to me. what value has he added to the world?.
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🚀 @blockpartyapp_ has opened signup and launched on @producthunt! a big deal for any founder to launch, but it's so personal for me as harassment has been such an unfortunate & large part of my life and i'm grateful to be able to work on a solution for it
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blacked out his name to be nice (unnecessarily) but he’s a cs professor at a uc so yeah, it’s nice to know we have great people in charge of educating the next generation.
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I was one of the earliest engs @Pinterest; I've worked on infra, api, web, ads, homefeed & more #ILookLikeAnEngineer
http://t.co/vn0aS58JIv.
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social good hackathons typify silicon valley’s saviorism problem: inexperienced innovators parachute into a community they don’t understand to build products that no one needs, claiming a resume line and virtue signaling along the way
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been listening to @taylorswift13 “only the young” on repeat and really hoping the documentary and song drop help mobilize youth activism & civic participation in 2020. vote!!.
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please never send intros without checking with both parties first. for the love of god.
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twitter's product prioritization is like when you have super important shit to do but it's too stressful to deal so you procrastinate by doing everything else.
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before starting a company i fully did not appreciate how rare it is for people to follow through on what they say they’re going to do. (employees, investors, advisors, contractors, service providers, biz partners…). when you find someone good, hang on for dear life.
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this eyeshadow color is called “password” and every time i use it i wish i had “2fa” to finish the look
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Sitting within 25 feet of a high performer at work improved an employee’s performance by 15 percent. But sitting within 25 feet of a low performer hurt their performance by 30 percent.
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just to spell it out btw.- i am a woc.- i experience harassment .- i have built moderation and anti-harassment tools in the past .- including w/ machine learning, and i have a master’s in ai .- i am a senior staff level engineer who has had to tech lead and build my own product.
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literally lying on the couch with my laptop in this position as i post this
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i have some guy friends who, whenever i mention that something sexist happened to me, force me to explain exactly why it was sexist and say, well i have had similar bad things happen to me, or, i could imagine that happening to me, not sure that was sexist, and it just kills me.
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forgot to tag @kkariko - god bless you for your work and being an inspiration to all of us but especially female scientists! and for solving the research puzzle that's going to literally save the world.
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i’m actually laughing at how ridiculous this is. y’all just put $10m in a pre-seed company at a valuation of close to $100m.
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“it’s far easier for a young affluent white man who studied poverty at harvard to land a $1m grant w a concept pitch than it is for a 40yo black woman w a decades-long record of wins in the impoverished community where she works to get a grant for $20k”
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this interview with abigail disney is a really interesting and remarkably self aware take on inheriting wealth and being richer than anyone ever needs to be
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I have never had a woman ask me about office perks like free coffee, football tables, or even free lunch. Women do, however, ask me how they will be treated, and how comfortable they will feel for the sixty-plus percent of every waking hour in the workday.
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v tired of simultaneously having to prove myself to dudes over & over, and also being told that i come off as obnoxious if i drop my credentials ahead of time. i don't like credentialism but i also don't have a better way of getting people to default treat me with respect. .
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the chinese govt built a shiny new hq for the african union as a "gift" to "african friends" and backdoored in a nightly data dump to shanghai. it went on for 5 years before someone noticed the peak in data usage every night. amazingly terrible
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it breaks my heart to see so many talented women and bipoc tell me they can’t see themselves in tech for much longer bc it’s such a toxic industry. i also feel it so so much and wonder if / when i will break. i’ve toughened a lot but the system is relentless in trying to crush us.
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big thank you to @voguemagazine and @nathanheller for telling a bit of my story and that of diversity in tech http://t.co/9cb47qN4eO.
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if someone refused to take off their shoes at my house, they would no longer be a friend
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i don't know what i was expecting from the preview screen but it was not this.
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reliability is such an underrated quality. just do what you're say you're going to do, and you're doing better than almost everyone else out there!.
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Parrots were removed from a UK safari park after teaching each other to swear and then laughing about it
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You become a public figure the instant that someone else decides you are worthy of interest, even if you are minding your damn business. Maybe you will tweet a joke. Or maybe you will board a plane.
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i don’t understand how people think fixing social media is a niche problem, um isn’t it one of the biggest problems facing humanity? like, we literally can’t get anything done as a society bc of the insane polarization, disinfo, harassment, coordinated manipulation, etc etc.
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my team now has a jar where people have to drop $1 when using a male word to address/describe a mixed gender group http://t.co/U9Dju9cALN.
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wow, einstein’s first wife significantly contributed to “his” groundbreaking research in physics and yet (but who’s surprised) has been totally written out of history
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HOW IS HE STILL FUCKING TWEETING. @twitter do you think NOW might be a good time to turn off his megaphone for inciting violence? protestors have literally stormed the capitol. what more do you need??
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a common downside of working on something people view as good or moral is that they expect you to do it for free. how counterproductive to burn people out and instead prioritize financial rewards for doing work that is harmful or at best neutral.
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my stanford class update: repping the women who prioritized career in their 20s
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my woman in tech superpower is i can cry for an hour and then wipe off the tears and nobody can tell i was crying. good eye makeup is key for this btw.
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