A couple of weeks ago I got to go to the Grace Hopper conference for women in computing. It was a great conference. My favorite talk was one I happened on by accident, "I’m an imposter," where some of the most successful women I’ve ever met in person got up and talked about how they […]
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I didn’t see Danese Cooper‘s talk "Why Whinging Doesn’t Work" but the title has really been bothering me. I almost titled this post "stop telling me to stop whining!" I should start by saying I have never complained about my career in technology. (And I’m sure Danese wasn’t thinking about me personally when she wrote
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One of the things I’m passionate about is encouraging women in technology. With that in mind, I’m going to talk about something that’s never discussed in mixed company: crying at work. Or rather, trying desperately not to cry at work. I’ll tell you how I try not to cry at work and I’ll tell you
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I really enjoy reading The Pioneer Woman’s blog and I even bought her calendar because I like her pictures so much. This is the woman who left Los Angeles, married a rancher and now home schools her four children. And takes 75-150 pictures a day of life on the ranch. I’ve wondered several times
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Cognitive Friday got some interesting data about who is always hot and who is always cold. As most of us would have guessed, women are much more likely to be cold than men. (As I type this my hands are freezing!) Thin people and young people are also more likely to be cold. One related
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If you are like most people, you picked the homosexual one, but let us know below! As James Joyner writes: A recent Gallup poll reveals that Americans are much more likely to elect a black man or a woman president than a Mormon or an old man. More interestingly, they’d rather be governed by a
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Intuit published an interesting study about small business trends. According to the study more small businesses will be owned by Generation Y (1981-2001), baby boomers, women, and immigrants. Generation Y because they don’t believe in trusting a company to take care of them and they are quite comfortable with all of the new technologies and
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