HeyJaredShari Dunn Qualified
Author of the Book Qualified: How Competency Checking and Race Collide at Work by Harper Business
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When Your Words Come Back to You (opens the original)
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Every author hopes the work lands. It’s rare to get proof in the words of the people it was written for.The Race Equity Fellowship cohort at Service Never Sleeps read Qualified together and sent me their reflections. One fellow compared having the term “Competency Checking” to knowing tree species: once you can name it, you see patterns you would otherwise miss.That is the point of the book. Many of the doubts people carry at work aren’t personal failings. They are the predictable result of syst
What the CNN Sale Means for Substack (opens the original)
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The Paramount–Warner Bros. Discovery merger is all but done, and the fallout won’t stay at CNN. It is headed here. For those of us on Substack who didn’t arrive with a cable contract or a famous name, the question is getting hard to avoid: does this platform still have room for independent writers, or are we about to become window dressing for the people it’s courting?On Monday, California Attorney General Rob Bonta and eleven other state attorneys general, Oregon’s among them, <a href="https://
The Limits of the Courts and The Real Death Panel (opens the original)
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I want to draw your attention to two things, both related to diversity, equity, and inclusion, one of the core things I pay attention to.The first is a case about teacher-training grants. Last year, the Trump administration cut $600 million in teacher training because, they said, it was diversity, equity, and inclusion. What they mean by that is totally vague. Last week, a federal judge in Massachusetts held that they could not cut the $600 million.Eight states, including California, went up aga
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