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Until we acknowledge the dichotomous and gendered nature of perfectionism, we are agreeing to sit idly as misguided men fly themselves straight into the burning sun, and as women’s wings are clipped off in the name of protection.
The Perfectionist’s Guide to Losing Control
Katherine Morgan Schafler
Right now, women’s expressions of ambition and power seeking are being suppressed by funneling those expressions into the concept of perfectionism, then pathologizing perfectionism ad nauseam; this is one of the most widely propagated implicit drivers of our culture’s sexist agenda. Reinforcing the tempering of women’s expression of power is billed as “finding balance,” an instruction overwhelmingly directed towards women, not men.
The Perfectionist’s Guide to Losing Control
Katherine Morgan Schafler
To work around mismatches in our databases, we added additional logic in our ETL jobs that counted the number of rows in the application databases and in Snowflake in a given time period. If a discrepancy existed, the job would simply delete the data in Snowflake for that time period and re-copy the data from production. By having the job perform retroactive corrections, we increased our assurance that the data in Snowflake *actually* matched what was in the application databases.
Truth and Lies: Ensuring the Integrity of Our Data Warehouse
Lucidchart
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