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Chief Product Officer @ModernHire. Chief Science & Innovation Officer. CEO & Founder. Board Member. Patented inventor. #IOPsych #HRTech #Talent #Assessment

Portland, OR
Joined April 2016
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Dear #IOPsych: Public health crises. Economic chaos. Layoffs, furloughs, salary pressures. Consulting? HR programs? Are we essential? It is really scary right now. But let's not forget: we were created in secret military labs. Bc orgs are made of people, and bc science works.
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Best @profgalloway one-liner this week: describing Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse as "a giant incel panic room that no one is going to" Keep it up! @PivotPod
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"for people who can't afford healthcare" Literally blinded by privilege. What a gross thing to say/want/work towards.
When you're Associate Director of something called "Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence" but the $$ all comes from Silicon Valley so you feel compelled to retweet the clown suggesting that the poors should have LLM-generated medical advice instead of healthcare.
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With all of the layoffs and hiring freezes in #HRTech, many of the intelligent interviewing/smart interviewing/assessment providers are still hiring. 2023 is all about quality of hire.
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Big week! Headed to #SIOP22 for my 1st in-person conference in 3 years. Psyched and looking forward to great sessions and I-O learnings, reunions with colleagues, and the full-blown human zoo -- people acting even more awkward than before covid broke our social skills. #IOPsych
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Important police accountability work
The Grand Rapids Police Department refuses to release the name of the officer who killed #PatrickLyoya. How often do police release the officers’ names after they kill people? The answer depends on where you live. Let’s examine the data. (1/x) abcnews.go.com/amp/US/wireSt…
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Some of those that work forces apparently are indeed the same that burn crosses.
A Florida FBI informant found "dozens of police officers, prison guards, sheriff deputies and other law enforcement officers who were involved with the klan," including a deputy who paid dues to the United Northern and Southern Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. apnews.com/article/florida-r…
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This. Whole. Thread.
I almost hesitate to use the term “government” b/c a government itself is a neutral entity. How it operates depends entirely on who controls it. We’re being killed by a specific collective of ppl who either belong to the owner class or profit off serving owner class interests.
"The future doesn't create itself." @VusiThembekwayo We build it together. linkedin.com/posts/vusithemb…
Dr. Ken Lahti retweeted
some news: today, i’m excited to launch blackfilmarchive.com. this ever-expanding black film archive provides history and context to over 200 black films made from 1915 to 1979 currently streaming. every description on the site is lovingly written & researched by me.
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I’m guessing this doesn’t include the people Portland police shot this year.
This #GunViolenceAwarenessDay, I’m mourning the 26 Portlanders who have lost their lives to gun violence, and the 144 who have been injured by gun violence in 2021. The City is working to stop the epidemic of gun violence that has taken far too many lives in our community.
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Wow. This is unhinged. I’m literally looking at our voter registration database on my other screen. Right now. We can’t indulge these insane lies any longer. As a party. As a state. As a country. This is as readily falsifiable as 2+2=5. If we don’t call this out...
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#Childcare is not a family issue, it is a business issue. It affects how we work, when we #work and for many, why we work. Moving forward, employer-provided child care could also influence where we work. ow.ly/wlaP50EAZA3
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At what point in devising a million new things we must do to salvage policing do we admit that it can’t be saved because the fundamental problem to begin with is that the state licenses people to kill other people?
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"8% of murdered men in US were killed by police." These are extra-judicial pre-trial executions.
naysayers love to say we can't defund the police because then who will catch murderers but they conveniently forget that police commit 1/3 of all murders in which the perpetrator is a stranger to the victim.
Great IO Get Together #2: "A Cult of Persona(lity): How HBO Failed Us" will be going live Tuesday, March 16 @ 4:30PM CT USA! Join our live watch-party of Persona, the HBO docudrama on personality employment testing, followed by 30 minutes of commentary. buff.ly/2Q5e6Ed
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