This Week

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LIFE

Hectic week with lots of social commitments, out with a friend one night, at a women in tech meet-up another night, had a chat with someone about their challenges recruiting women (followed by a solo-mini-Cate-time, sushi, a book, and a long walk), met up with someone about potentially speaking at their conference, caught up with some people I used to work with who happened to be in town, and recorded a podcast interview for my upcoming talk at modevUX. Weekend was more chill, gym time, afternoon tea with friends, wondered home through Hyde Park (very pretty! There was actually sunshine!) and prep for my talk at the Lovelace Colloquium next week.

Finally traded in my busted up band for an up24, I really like the automatic syncing.

WORK

Productive, but exhausting. Couldn’t even face leaving with my laptop on Friday night (in case I wanted to work from home on Monday), just looked at it and felt can’t and left it behind.

PLACES

Dinner at Cubana (meh) and Cocochan (always fab, but expensive), and Moti Mahal (expensive but delicious). Afternoon tea at Bond and Brook, which was fab.

MEDIA

Hooked on Veronica Mars, starting to hate it because I like it too much. Still reading An Absolute Deception, and 4 Hour Body (reading slowly to try out tips as I go), and also started Manage Your Day To Day.

Product links Amazon.

PUBLISHED

ON THE INTERNET

I’m torn between horror/admitation: Single woman spends 14 years with mannequin family to make a point http://bit.ly/OmPJvA /via @felsull
As an engineer on the other side of this “you should be a PM!” I found @ellenchisa‘s take on women in PM interesting: http://blog.ellenchisa.com/2014/04/06/portraying-women-in-product-management/ …
This is good – A Primer on Showing Empathy in the Tech Industry – http://bit.ly/1gP5SWq /via @jyhsu /by @colonizesaturn
What is that again? Anyone can succeed in America? Charts debunking the American Dream – http://bit.ly/1hicKqJ /via @rmi
@BestoftheMail: Of all the bizarre letters about gay marriage, this one must be the strangest of them all (thx @pointlesslettrs) pic.twitter.com/Pifg3z5AzK
I like this idea – Why making my tasks emotional increased my productivity – http://buff.ly/1hbewyQ
@CaraFennec: I know how you feel, vending machine…. I know how you feel pic.twitter.com/cK3eGvwSnB
More depressing stats – “52% of women have been bullied or harassed at work in the past three years” – http://buff.ly/1lEwzjB /via @felsull
Horrifying story of aftermath of sexual assault and Harvard’s lack of action TW: rape, victim blaming – http://buff.ly/1lEwRqO /via @ekp
“Is it really so hard to have compassion about something that might not directly affect you?” http://buff.ly/1q07IWN /via @NatDudley
These lights are cool, very beautiful – http://buff.ly/1q086om
DON’T WORRY EVERYONE we were missing a man’s opinion on street harrassment, luckily one was kind enough to provide. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/09/everyday-sexism-condemns-sexual-advances-mysogynist …
One of my favourite authors – Dorothy Sayers & “The Lost Tools of Learning” http://bit.ly/Pr5jrp /by @dontgetcaught
Good things for hiring managers to think about here – Is “culture fit” discriminatory? http://bit.ly/1hr5kBB
Glad @adriarichards: wrote about whitewashing, in that nyt piece: Technology Has A Culture Problem, Not a Man Problem http://butyoureagirl.com/2014/04/09/technologys-culture-problem/ …
Long but fascinating article, on blaming organizations http://bit.ly/1hrObYt /via @hypatiadotca
Read this, on disadvantage being a foreign concept that many people don’t understand – http://bit.ly/1hUQaZQ
Really good article on speaker introductions – http://bit.ly/1hxXmGQ /via @GirlGeeksWR /cc @dontgetcaught
Such a beautiful video – Slow Life – http://bit.ly/1hxXlCx /via @amygdala @stevesilberman @petapixel
I love both the creations, and mistakes leading to new ideas – http://buff.ly/1hg9LDW /cc @lccarson
Good article – Is “culture fit” discriminatory? – http://buff.ly/1hrTpco