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Worked for 2U. It was the most incomprehensibly incompetent place you could imagine. Terrible people with zero real skills all backstabbing each other.


> Terrible people with zero real skills all backstabbing each other.

You know, without you saying another word, I feel like I know them, down to being able to describe their clothes, haircuts and of course powerpoint decks. It's like some bad business school archetype that just re-appears by itself in nature.


This sounds increasingly common in US corp culture, it was reasonably common when I worked there (when times were good) but perhaps now even more so.


I interviewed a few years ago. Did not get an offer. It all seemed very white, a very salesy culture, and with very inflated titles.


How would you feel if I complained about a company being a bit "too brown"? Since when did we normalize this subtle racism towards white people?


For a workplace to be very white means they are self-selecting whiteness for their employees instead of hiring in a way that gives equal opportunity to all people. In other words, they have (probably unconscious but still inexcusable) racism in their hiring practices. Reasonable people would agree this is a bad thing.


Is 60% very white?


Depends on the city and country.


i think he's referring to the collar (not the skin) as in white collar work vs blue or brown collar.


Valid point - if that was the intention then my bad, bit of an overreaction.


I really don’t think this is the case


The US is a white-majority country where the power and money are disproportionately in the hands of white people.

When a company (in education!) that makes lots of noise about diversity obviously favors hiring white people, it's noteworthy.

If we were in some brown-majority country where white people were excluded from money and power, yes, that would be noteworthy. Call it out! The US, despite what Trump tells his MAGA followers, is not that country.


Depends what you’d call successful. My marketing consulting service earned me a tolerable living and then helped me land a really good full time job.


Thanks for the feedback. I'll have to update the TOS to be more clear. For the record, the app doesn't collect location.

I think you're totally right to distrust TOS. Most have some really BS conditions, especially for free stuff. In this though, it was just an oversight on my part.


Thanks. We're keeping track of feedback and have a few features like this one the way!


Yes! This is definitely one of the types of problems this app is meant to solve. We just launched, but features like repeating tasks are on their way.


TY!


Thanks! Fixing now.


That feature is on its way! I personally hate feeling nagged by my To Do list, so we're going to make an optional reminders system.

When would you like reminders? Would you want reminders for "This Week" to show up every day, or just Mondays?


Thanks for the feedback! Really like the idea of This Weekend.

Btw are you suggesting different colors or just fewer colors overall?


Maybe a different color scheme, keeping the option for color and contrast you currently have.

I actually think this could be valuable for you:

https://blog.datawrapper.de/beautifulcolors/


I'm really unsure about the colors, other than I don't love them. I'm bad color suggestions! I also don't hate them, but I did notice them right away, they just don't look great.


I'd love to learn more and see about incorporating this concept. Contact me on the site if you'd like to contribute suggestions.


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