Education
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Sunk Costs and Academia
→: Sunk Costs and AcademiaI’m prone to “loss-aversion”, for example saying something like “I really don’t want to cook but we bought that chicken…” and my boyfriend always calls me on it, saying “don’t buy into the sunk costs fallacy”. In the end, we’ve just stopped buying groceries. The sunk costs fallacy is the tendency to “throw good money after…
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Bagels, Chores, and Compromises
→: Bagels, Chores, and CompromisesI discovered something new about where I live at the weekend. The nearby drugmart doesn’t sell bagels. I’d always assumed that they would, but when I tested that theory I found it lacking. Living in a small place, there wasn’t anywhere I could continue on to and so I ended up at my boyfriend’s apartment…
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Uncertainty
→: UncertaintyA while ago I got into a slightly drunken argument. I’d had two martinis, so not what you’re thinking – I was mostly tipsy and mellow. But I was sitting next to someone whose position I thought was intellectually bankrupt, and I didn’t pretend to have any respect for it. Nor did I walk away. That…
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Grownups Make Choices
→: Grownups Make ChoicesFor the cool-down at spin class, the instructor put on some Andrew Lloyd Weber, I think something from Phantom of the Opera. Yes, it was pretty random. But, for me, something of a blast from the past. It was a song I used to sing, back when I had singing lessons. And then as I…
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But, I Don’t Want to be an Entrepreneur: Permission and Choice
→: But, I Don’t Want to be an Entrepreneur: Permission and ChoiceTina Seelig, author of What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20 (Amazon) teaches courses in Entrepreneurship and Creativity at Stanford. I was fascinated as to what teaching entrepreneurship would consist of (you can see the course list here). The big message I found in her book was about giving yourself permission – permission…
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But, I Don’t Want to be an Entrepreneur
→: But, I Don’t Want to be an EntrepreneurRecently, I was asked to write an article on women and leadership for a women in entrepreneurship edition of a publication. I was really flattered to be asked, of course, and was intelligent and articulate (well, I like to think so) on the phone about what I would be writing about – the idea of leadership in…
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Software Engineering for Superheros
→: Software Engineering for SuperherosI’m pretty sure I have the second best job in the world. My friend and I were talking the other week and the conclusion was that working on Google doodles would be the very best job in the world. I don’t know anything that makes so many people happy. Unfortunately, neither of us can draw.…
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WISE Talk: 3 Things That Make Me Luckier
→: WISE Talk: 3 Things That Make Me LuckierCommentary (I didn’t have slides) for the talk I gave for UO WISE. I thought I was going to come and have an informal chat about how interviewing at Google is not that scary, and then I saw Krystal’s tweet. [blackbirdpie id=”55757050474532864″] I freaked out a little, to be honest. Like, woah – I need…
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Don’t Panic. Don’t Procrastinate.
→: Don’t Panic. Don’t Procrastinate.I spent the weekend trying to write the paper I was stressing about in this post. By trying, I mean fixating on how I wanted to clean my apartment and throw out most of my belongings, cleaning my apartment, skimming back issues of the economist (because then I get to throw them out!), and periodically sitting…