Organization
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Most Popular Posts from 2010
→: Most Popular Posts from 2010It’s been quite a year for my blog – the connections I’ve made, the comments you’ve left. I’m blown away by the stats. Thank you for stopping by! Round up of my most popular posts: Interviewing @ Google – comprehensive list of what I did to prepare for my interviews. Presentation Slides for “Conversation 2.0:…
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Fighting Incrementalist Tendencies
→: Fighting Incrementalist TendenciesI originally posted Making Ideas Happen: The Dreamer, the Doer, and the Incrementalist as a not-so-subtle hint to one of the dreamers in my life, and a reminder to myself to be aware of the downsides of being an incrementalist. And then Meggin left this great comment (emphasis added): I’m an incrementalist, through and through.…
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Making Ideas Happen: The Dreamer, the Doer, and the Incrementalist
→: Making Ideas Happen: The Dreamer, the Doer, and the IncrementalistMaking Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality (Amazon) is a must for anyone who feels their genius is insufficiently recognized and needs to start focusing on action, not ideas. In my In Pursuit of Awesome talk, one of the points was – “Ideas are Cheap. Execution is expensive.” This book is all…
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Being Present
→: Being PresentI hate what I’m working on lately. That’s probably been apparent from the moaning on Twitter and somewhat angsty blogposts. It’s nearly done… but it doesn’t feel that way. It feels endless. What I’ve noticed, is how much of a struggle it is to be in the moment, working on whatever it is that I…
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Giving Up On Goals
→: Giving Up On GoalsI’m not doing my weekly review at the moment. At first it was in part because I was ashamed to admit that I hadn’t yet unpacked my apartment (it’s done now). But also, I showed up to the coffee shop to work with my mentee and something exciting had happened to her, and she said,…
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In Pursuit of Awesome: The Perils of a Reactionary Workflow
→: In Pursuit of Awesome: The Perils of a Reactionary WorkflowI got an amazing response to my In Pursuit of Awesome post, here and on Geek Feminism. It’s inspired me to write a series of posts where I explore some of the tips I wrote about and related topics in more depth. I ran into my manager from IBM the other week. He gave me some really good…
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Unreasonable Expectations for my Calendar
→: Unreasonable Expectations for my CalendarAt the moment I’m trying to work out where I’m going to be for the next two months. A trip to New York is fixed, but a trip to Europe is not. And then there’s the maybe on Utah… too many dependencies! I find scheduling things stressful – the CompSci in me wants to find…
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Week in Brief
→: Week in BriefFrom last week Tutoring Work out with trainer 3x Kickboxing 2x – revised goal! Meeting RE workshop Finish reading Social Networking and Trending papers Read Twitter papers – Don’t know how I thought I was going to do this as well Meeting with co-supervisor Investigate architecting data for analysis WISE Inspiring Woman event Spend time…
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Week in Brief
→: Week in BriefLast week: Workshop AF Meeting Tutoring Kickbox 3x – complete fail Work out with Trainer 2x Gym 2x +1 time with trainer, 1x kickboxboxing Meeting with co-supervisor, come up with plan for next paper Investigate MSFT conversation dataset Read Social Networking and Trending Papers – there were 30+ – about half way through! Extend student…