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Valerie Phoenix

@digitalblkhippy.bsky.social

(She/Her) Founder of Tech by Choice ✊🏾 Artist 🎨 Senior Engineering Leader πŸ’» Speaker 🎀 Psychology Enthusiast 🧠 Your Local Cali Hippie 🌴 πŸ‘©πŸΎβ€πŸ¦±πŸŒ΄ Ready to support diversity in tech? - http://techbychoice.org/

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I’ve worked so hard to get to where I’m at mentally, financially & physically it doesn’t seem real that I’m here.

07.10.2025 19:30 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The cto found out the process I introduced to simplify quarterly planning and wants to make it the new standard βœ¨πŸ’…πŸΎ

07.10.2025 15:46 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

Does anyone have any resources to help explain to a developmentally disabled adult that they have cancer in an appropriate way? Are there books for this? I’m so overwhelmed

06.10.2025 15:19 β€” πŸ‘ 56    πŸ” 36    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 5

I hate I can’t get out of the bathtub without hitting life alert πŸ™ƒ

I can’t wait to get my independence back

06.10.2025 05:21 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My TikTok is full of black people leaning bad bunny songs to prep for the halftime show and I’m so here for it πŸ˜‚

My introduction to him was seeing he perform at Coachella and he was the only person that made me push to the front of the stage

05.10.2025 15:54 β€” πŸ‘ 62    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

I did not know people where mad bad bunny is going to perform at the half time 😭

There’s so many things to be mad at I don’t get this energy

02.10.2025 19:46 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Just realized we got a michelin star chef to cater our event

I thought he was this nice chef at our local restaurant we like to go to πŸ˜‚

28.09.2025 04:41 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The start of the year I was deadlifting over 100 pounds.

Now getting out of the car is a struggle πŸ™ƒ

20.09.2025 17:32 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

As a leader your refinements shouldn’t just focus on pointing tickets.

Yes that’s a big goal if the meeting, but sometimes the only goal should be getting alignment on key initiatives.

19.09.2025 19:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve thought about it and there are ways but I think my focus has shifted a bit. I might revisit the idea later if no one else has come up with a solution

18.09.2025 19:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

He said he didn’t think things would turn out the way that they have and if I would have move forward, success would have been there, but it’s unclear now at what cost.

While it’s validating to know others now see what I saw, it sucks that we’re here

18.09.2025 04:19 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I had the most insightful conversation with an old mentor. He reached out to share that he originally thought my call to not pursue a startup ideas wasn’t a good idea.

That I put too much thought into the ethics of what if the wrong people got the data.

18.09.2025 04:19 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Asking and receiving more support has healed me faster than expected

15.09.2025 18:22 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Listen!! I need some type of something to appear to make this happen

15.09.2025 17:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

lol honestly has a dream I built my dream home in the sims and it just popped up in real life.

Was so said when that wasn’t my reality πŸ˜†

15.09.2025 17:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

House hunting is exhausting.

Building and buying homes in the sims didn’t set me up for success πŸ˜“

15.09.2025 05:08 β€” πŸ‘ 35    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

I’ve made so many updates to this app over the last few months

I’ve doubled the features and slowly been turning them on and saw an increase in the few paying users I have πŸ”₯

13.09.2025 11:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Is this a new update lmfao how do I activate this πŸ˜‚

09.09.2025 17:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Lmfao this is honestly how I felt this morning.

09.09.2025 16:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The wild thing about living is you don’t know who we’ll wake up to be everyday

09.09.2025 15:49 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

I'm pretty sure I am mutuals with a Black woman indie game dev on here but now I can't find her. I want to ask her to speak to my brother's game dev class at the biggest public high school on Washington DC :/

05.09.2025 23:58 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I can’t wait to sit around and make art and food prep without worrying about code πŸ₯³

04.09.2025 00:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I feel like a true clown because I, a senior+ dev, low balled the estimate because it β€œseemed straight forward” 🀑

04.09.2025 00:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Merging two completely different workflows to make one smooth UX is harder than it should be πŸ˜“

03.09.2025 18:30 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

My dog has always been clingy but for the last week she hasn’t left my side for more than 2 mins πŸ˜‚

03.09.2025 17:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I just thought about the fact that if I was concerned about gender roles I wouldn’t be living the life I’m currently living.

Me breaking into tech was a new year resolution to do more β€œmanly” things

29.08.2025 17:36 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’ll give it a try!

29.08.2025 17:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So what browser are we using to replace chrome? I'm tired of it slowing now my machine

29.08.2025 16:14 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

For the next 3 months I'm going to focus on relaxing.

If it's not helping me decompress I don't need it For the next 3 months I'm going to focus on relaxing.

If it's not helping me decompress I don't need it

28.08.2025 23:57 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you!

27.08.2025 20:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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