🗣️ Stop calling yourself an IC
Robin Rendle:
So: stop calling yourself and your coworkers “ICs”. You are a designer, an engineer, a producer. Your contribution deserves more than a moniker that is made to dehumanize you, purpose-built to make you replaceable. Do not help this dehumanizing system to dehumanize you by normalizing this kind of language!
And always pick your words kindly, carefully
The term "IC" always bugged me, but I never took the time to figure out why. Robin did, and this piece resonates.