In my career, I’ve noticed that the most successful work emerges from a crystal-clear answer to the question, Why are we doing this? That sense of purpose sometimes arises organically, but in my experience, it is more often the result of someone bothering to ask that exact question. I was reminded of this the other [...]
Archive | August, 2012
Let It Suck.
A friend of mine is grieving the death of her husband. She is in her late thirties; he was forty-two, fit, beautiful, the life of every party, and the father of her two young children. His death came out of the blue, and knocked us all sideways. The day I decided to finally announce my [...]
Jenny Hart on Imperfect Reality
“It’s not always easy, if you’ve got a strong idea of what it is that you’d like to create. I think that’s the hardest thing. Nine times out of ten, it doesn’t look like what you expect it to be. You’ve got to decide whether you love that child or not. Can you love the [...]
Medieval Sampling Techniques, Silos, and Creativity
I have a bachelor’s degree in classical music – a discipline that has been struggling for the last century to define its place and figure out how to remain relevant. You might expect that classical musicians would be falling over themselves to forge creative connections with other musical genres, in an effort to infuse freshness [...]
The “Yes, and” of Women Angel Investors
Venture capitalist Dave McClure gives women who care about business and/or technology lots to chew on in his post, “Women in Tech: Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is.” I like some of what he’s saying, disagree with parts of it, and am enormously psyched that he cares enough about the issue of gender equity [...]
How Women Can Help Square Beat the Competition
Earlier this month, Jack Dorsey (the illustrious Twitter co-founder who now heads up Square, the market leader for mobile payments) came under fire for a photo he tweeted that showed him lunching with Square’s crop of summer interns. The photo was rather unremarkable – a bunch of youngish guys sitting around a boardroom table with [...]
Supporting women in tech: This is how you do it.
I’ve worked in tech for fifteen years. In those fifteen years, women have remained a small minority in the sector, particularly in technical jobs (read: programmers/engineers/developers). A lot of people I know have bemoaned the numbers, and discussed various ways we might address the gender imbalance, but I haven’t seen a lot of success stories [...]
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Highlights
- Women in Tech and Empathy Work
- Inclusivity Is Not A Double Standard: Why Forbes is Wrong about Women in Tech
- Let It Suck.
- The Accidental Boss: Making Peace with Power
- Who am I to be Creative, Resourceful, and Whole?
- When Should You Start Following Your Big Dream?
- Moms Like Crosswords, and the NYT is ON IT.
- The Rebel Grandma: What my grandmother taught me about sex, love, and loneliness
- Fitter, Happier, More Productive: How Tech Can Help Us Be & Do Better
- What Men (and Everyone, Really) Can Do To Support Gender Equity in Tech
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