Mike Monteiro

English is my second language. You were my first.

Medium member since March 2017Editor of Dear Design Student, Mule Design Studio, and Maybe It’s Fiction

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From Separating immigrant families isn’t just wrong, it’s a war crime by jeffiel

As a tech leader and public CEO, I’m often advised to stay apolitical. But this isn’t politics, I believe this is a matter of objective right and wrong. Staying silent doesn’t feel like leadership to me. I encourage other leaders to consider the cost of silence.

From Modernism's Last Nightstand by Ross Floate

These qualities could also be used to describe our relationships with our friends. When we choose to commune with music on this temperamental machine with its moving parts and unwieldy physical format, we are engaged listeners and not passive consumers. We’re human.

From AI is Not a Community Management Strategy by Derek Powazek

…t because that’s literally the very first thing you have to do, and the thing that only you can do. You can’t just give a pile of bad stuff to the computer and say “you figure it out.” That’s just outsourcing your responsibility.

From AI is Not a Community Management Strategy by Derek Powazek

…r platforms are for. Thus far, they’ve been for everyone and everything. It’s time to rethink that. While there’s a community for everyone, not everyone is welcome in every community, and that’s okay. That’s how communities work. And when the “everything” that your community is for includes destroying human lives and American d…

From AI is Not a Community Management Strategy by Derek Powazek

AI is just computers doing what they do. It’s not a solution to everything. And if we’re using it to avoid making hard decisions, then it’s part of the problem.

From Matt, Part 2: Eulogy by Ani King

…nd loved Garth Brooks, Master P, and Jethro Tull with equal fervor, and never gave a shit who knew. We miss you, kid.

From We totally suck at dealing with suicide by Mike Monteiro

If suicide is a sin, God is an asshole

From The Anatomy of Change by Erika Hall

…t it is worth repeating because people in leadership roles aren’t getting it and it’s not changing. The whole point of addressing bias is so that everyone can just come in and do their damn jobs without having to do the extra work of proving themselves in every interaction. Sometimes, solutions that seem like the right thing to do end up exacerbating the problem.

From What’s the impact of Design, you ask? by Preethi Shreeya

…companies remedied their design choices, which is great! But do you see where I am going with this? Design has great power and it’s our responsibility as designers to make informed decisions. This can’t be stressed enough.