Career
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Life After Burnout
→: Life After BurnoutI’m currently in what I would describe as a post-burnout-phase. The memory of being burnt out is vivid, and I fear going back there, but I’m doing OK and even cautiously optimistic about the future. Sometimes I resent the cost, and sometimes I just feel so grateful to be in this better place.. and usually,…
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Why Are We Still Geeks – Panel at GHC
→: Why Are We Still Geeks – Panel at GHCMarie Klawe Been worried about image in the media for 20 years. Been working on it, but no progress. But “if you don’t even try, you definitely won’t succeed”. Had many failures, but getting closer to success. There used to be very few female lawyers and doctors, now it’s 50%. Still not reaching power –…
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Advancing Your Career With Leadership Presence, GHC 2013
→: Advancing Your Career With Leadership Presence, GHC 2013Workshop by Pat Kirkland. Panel of CEOs, woman waited 17 minutes for the first laugh. She has to work hard to show she can do the job, men know they have arrived. Presence is the social power granted to you by virtue of how you show up. Leaders are always looking for leaders. Confident. Capable.…
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Crisis of Conscience
→: Crisis of ConscienceAt some point, my doubts about whether it was the Right thing to do, to encourage high school girls to go into Computer Science crystallised, and I accepted – I just cannot do it anymore. I cannot tell them that it is a good idea, that they will be treated well, that there are plentiful…
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6 Things I Look For When Considering Projects and Teams
→: 6 Things I Look For When Considering Projects and TeamsWomen in senior roles (I am ignoring the presence of new grad women as a metric – it’s a meaningless measure of diversity). A manager with some kind of work life balance. Does he (sadly it’s always a he) talk about his kids? Make an effort to moderate his travel for the sake of his…
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Brenda Chapman at GHC 2013
→: Brenda Chapman at GHC 2013This talk – by the woman behind Brave (Amazon) was absolutely on of my favourite ever GHC talks. Warm, and funny, and inspiring. Talked about some difficult things, but overall positive. Scared to come to GHC, because she’s a technological dinosaur. Pixar was full of smart people, but kids. She was in the kids group.…
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So, You Finally Have a Woman on Your Team?
→: So, You Finally Have a Woman on Your Team?Some unsolicited thoughts (OK, advice) for managers who finally have a woman reporting to them. 1. Meaningful Projects None of us got into the tech industry for the casual misogyny and the rampant sexual harassment, and we don’t go into work excited for the possibility of someone mistaking us for the help. Same as the…
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10 Ways to Develop Your Plan B
→: 10 Ways to Develop Your Plan BFollowing on from The Disillusionment of the Early Career Engineer, I could write a number of different things, but the thing that I find people having the biggest trouble with, that I am continually nudging people on, is the finding of other options and opportunities. I don’t know why. Do people view this as disloyal?…
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Presenting Gives Me Nightmares, but I Still Do It: Here’s How
→: Presenting Gives Me Nightmares, but I Still Do It: Here’s HowI get very nervous presenting, although it’s something I do relatively often. This is not out of enthusiasm for getting up on stage, but rather because I find myself in the position of being the least unwilling engineer. After my last presentation I was told that I didn’t need to be nervous, because I was…