About That Glass Ceiling
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A VP-level engineer at a public company is one of five Black VPs at a 40,000-person public company and frames ADHD and celiac as gifts, using ADHD hyperfocus as an asset to solve hard problems. Concrete advice: be technically excellent, define vision → goals → strategy → tactics, build influence by enabling others, treat setbacks as rejection means not yet, keep learning (mentions AWS 429 rate limit), and read practical books like Five Dysfunctions, Working Backwards and Team of Teams.
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chapters (28)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:25About the Glass Ceiling
- 0:54About Breaking the Glass Ceiling
- 1:18We Have Our Own Think
- 2:42Your Ecosystem
- 3:53Realistic Optimism
- 5:10Not a Guide
- 6:04About Me
- 6:33Gifted
- 8:26Getting older
- 8:47Music taste
- 10:35Outcast
- 11:38First Thought
- 12:19Second Thought
- 12:30Be Good
- 13:26Rejection
- 15:10Plan
- 19:13Power Community
- 21:18Moving up the corporate ladder
- 23:50I love hip hop
- 24:25Hip hop quotes
- 26:02Conflict
- 27:11Aston Martin
- 28:30Dont argue with fools
- 30:07You cant stop learning
- 32:56Working backwards
- 33:57Team of Teams
- 35:44benediction
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