Career
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Female Entrepreneurship: Observations and Opportunities
→: Female Entrepreneurship: Observations and OpportunitiesI’ve been generally skeptical of whether we would see a rise in Female Entrepreneurship, much of which was because looking at the data (female-led companies are more likely to succeed, male-led companies are more likely to fail) it wasn’t clear to me whether more women should be starting companies… or just fewer men. However there are some…
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Work vs Life
→: Work vs LifeThere was an article a while ago with Marissa Mayer’s thoughts on work life balance. Essentially it was that long hours were fine, as long as you didn’t miss out on things that would make you resent it. I try and work manageable (sustainable!) hours but sometimes my work gets prioritised over my life. And my…
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The Day I Leave The Tech Industry
→: The Day I Leave The Tech IndustryI know that this will happen, that one day I will have had enough, and I will leave. It’s something I think about on a regular basis, and wonder, what will I do after? Will I move to a cheaper city and make things, consult, and hope to make ends meet? Will I retreat still…
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5 Guys You’ll Meet in the Tech Industry
→: 5 Guys You’ll Meet in the Tech IndustryThe Faux Feminist This guy will tell you that he thinks there should be more women in tech, but balks at the idea of actually… doing anything about that, and any conversation on the topic somehow goes in the direction of what is fair for the men. He doesn’t think there should be “special” scholarships for…
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Passion and the Developer
→: Passion and the DeveloperI go to a startup event, and it’s interesting to hear non-technical people talking about developers like over-priced commodities. L comes to me for advice, she’s contemplating her next move and worrying about whether or not she feels passion for the project. C reads my blog, tells me that she can tell I’m passionate about writing from my writing. I say,…
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I Used To Make Apps
→: I Used To Make AppsIn my copious amounts of spare time, I’m been playing with iOS lately (some actual coding posts coming soon, I hope). It’s fun, how quickly I can pull together a framework for an app. The satisfaction of something appearing, that didn’t used to be there. It’s that feeling of making. I miss it. I miss the…
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The Care and Feeding of Interns
→: The Care and Feeding of InternsInternships are often billed as a “3 month job interview”, but from the other side they are a 3 month stint in being a people manager, and the first opportunity people have to have a real impact on someone else’s career. This can be in a good way – the internship that makes the intern feel…
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Some Thoughts On Mentoring
→: Some Thoughts On MentoringI’m lucky to have a large and broad network, internally and externally. Well, I say lucky. I work at it. I stay in touch, ping people to say hi, schedule lunches, arrange to meet up when I’m in the area, or they are in the area, ask how they are doing, take an interest in…
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Making Someplace New, Home
→: Making Someplace New, HomeI’ve had this conversation multiple times lately, so it’s time to document it. I feel like a hippocrite offering these observations, since I don’t feel at all at home in London yet, but at least I’m mindfully unhappy about it. Even somewhat 1-dimensional workaholics have multiple aspects to their lives (they normally have somewhere to…