Organization
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Choose: You Can’t Have Both
→: Choose: You Can’t Have BothThere’s this advice that women seem to give each other, it’s “you can have it all, just not at once”. I hate it, because to me if you can’t have it all at once, you’re not really having it all. Rephrasing it, I would say, “You can’t have it all at once. So remember to…
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Balancing Acts
→: Balancing ActsWhen I started work, I set myself a simple rule – one that I’d less deliberately followed last summer. At the end of the day, leave work computer at work. Do not put work email on phone. It works. I enjoy my evenings and weekends. I wake up excited to go to the office. I…
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Doing Too Much
→: Doing Too MuchThe other day, one of my friends tweeted about taking on too much and feeling overwhelmed. A mutual friend tweeted that he should speak to me. I guess I’m becoming known for that taking on too much, getting overwhelmed, crashing thing I repeat ad nauseum. Hmm. I have noticed a pattern where friends start noticing that…
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Insufficient Whitespace
→: Insufficient WhitespaceSome time ago, Derek wrote this amazing post titled Needs More Whitespace. I was thinking about it lately because it seems like things are so hectic, and no sooner does one thing end than another begins – I got back from California, was on a panel, my boyfriend moved to Canada, then my friend moved…
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4 Hours to Smash the CS Stereotype and Create Something Beautiful
→: 4 Hours to Smash the CS Stereotype and Create Something BeautifulAli and I will presenting our paper 4 Hours to Smash the CS Stereotype and Create Something Beautiful (pdf) at the upcoming CICE Education conference in Toronto. Christine Alvarado of Harvey Mudd college came to Google last month to gave a talk on how they’d brought female enrollment in Computer Science up to 42%. The talk is called “Three…
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Confronting the Brutal Facts of Reality
→: Confronting the Brutal Facts of RealityIn Good to Great (Amazon), one of the things they found to differentiate great companies is that they confront the brutal facts of reality. It’s a question I’m asking myself more often since reading the book – am I being brutally honest with myself? Is this how reality actually is? Am I ignoring anything that will come back…
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Making Mondays Manageable
→: Making Mondays ManageableI’ve been getting really stressed out on Mondays lately. I realized why when I called someone out on doing the exact same thing. Monday mornings I do my “snippets” – I make a list of things I achieved the previous week. And I mentally plan what I want to achieve over the course of the coming…
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Stop Waiting; It’s Today
→: Stop Waiting; It’s TodayMy boyfriend is supposed to be moving out to Canada at the start of April, but his visa application got held up. He was contemplating keeping his apartment in London and staying another month. I said, Don’t do that. Spending an extra month living in limbo will suck. I give great advice (sometimes). I should…
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3 Challenges of a Remote Presentation
→: 3 Challenges of a Remote PresentationBeing Yourself on the Internet was the first remote presentation I’ve given. It was really hard, and I wasn’t happy with how it went. I think there were 3 big things I didn’t consider, and that was why I found it so difficult. 1. Lack of Visual and Audible Feedback I completely underestimated how…