<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Empowerment on A Blog for the Uninitialized</title><link>https://www.nilpointer.blog/tags/empowerment/</link><description>Recent content in Empowerment on A Blog for the Uninitialized</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-us</language><copyright>&lt;a href="https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;Licensed under Apache 2.0&lt;/a&gt;</copyright><lastBuildDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2026 16:43:50 -0800</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.nilpointer.blog/tags/empowerment/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Thoughts on Pushing Back on Management</title><link>https://www.nilpointer.blog/posts/2026/02/thoughts-on-pushing-back-on-management/</link><pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2026 16:43:50 -0800</pubDate><guid>https://www.nilpointer.blog/posts/2026/02/thoughts-on-pushing-back-on-management/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I recently learned about a man by the name of Roger Boisjoly, who, in the 80&amp;rsquo;s, was involved in the Challenger shuttle project. In 2012, &lt;a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2012/02/06/146490064/remembering-roger-boisjoly-he-tried-to-stop-shuttle-challenger-launch"
 
 
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&gt;NPR put together some information&lt;/a&gt; about him and his involvement in the project.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;rsquo;re unfamiliar, this was the shuttle that blew up on its way up out of our atmosphere. I remember less of the actual event myself, but was well aware of it because my elementary school was named after &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christa_McAuliffe"
 
 
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&gt;Christa McAuliffe&lt;/a&gt;. She was to be the first teacher in space.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>