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 [...]
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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 [...]
Getting Grown-Up Time While Caring for a Newborn: Lessons Learned
My son (those are his feet in the picture above) will be three months old on Sunday, and while many of the truisms of new motherhood have definitely pulled me into their wake (hello, sleep deprivation, surprising hormonal shifts, and an irrational, yet immutable conviction that my baby is the most fascinating and beautiful creature [...]
The Conversation
I met Patti at a conference. We arrived on the first evening amidst Stanley Cup fever – our city’s team was in the finals, and most people were skipping dinner to watch the first period of the game. I sat down next to her in front of the television – not because I’m much for [...]
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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?
- The One Question You Must Ask (or, The World’s Shortest Bucket List)
- Integrating Intuition Into Your Decision-Making: How to Follow Your Gut in the Right Direction (Video)
- 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
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- The One Question You Must Ask (or, The World’s Shortest Bucket List) | Lauren Bacon: [...] Mine had two things on it: Visit the Rothko ...
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