Category: Social Networking
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What Does Claude Need to Be My Social Media Manager?
I have a problem that I suspect others reading this share: my content is spread across too many places, and I have no coherent picture of what’s actually working. I post on Mastodon, Bluesky and LinkedIn. I write a weekly blog post. I have two newsletters — one monthly, one “when I leave somewhere.” I…
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Spring Cleaning in December
I used to have a habit of refreshing my website at the end of each year, but I missed a couple and then it became in my head a bigger project that was a discouraging combination of feeling both pointless and overwhelming. But on a productive tear (with Claude) during the winter break, I finally…
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Lists of Women Don’t Change Anything
I have mixed feelings about lists of women. Well I say mixed: my feelings on lists are, broadly, negative. I understand the appeal — either people genuinely believe that people not being aware of women is a problem. Or they think that with a list this can really, finally, be refuted. It seems unlikely that either of…
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Social Media Coping Strategies
Over the last year the way I use social media has changed. It wasn’t dramatic. Just time passed… how much I was willing to share decreased, I started to feel anxious at times. The most vicious things normally end up in the moderation queue of my blog, and I could probably still quote things long…
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Flawed Humans
As I walked through Barcelona, I came across a tiny hidden museum dedicated to Dalí. As I admired the work, I pulled up his Wikipedia page to learn more about the artist. And discovered that he refused to decry the Nazis, and had been kicked out of the Surrealist movement in part because of it…
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Audio of How To Undermine Women Whilst Being “Nice”
In response to this: I made this: Original
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Finding More Women on Social Media
Every so often I find my twitter handle in a list that forms a response to some guy saying “who are some women I should follow on social media?”. Do these things work? I don’t know. I’ve compared notes with other women on how long it lasted when a prominent VC asked that question (for me, <24…
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Some Thoughts About Harassment
I don’t like to talk about the online harassment I experience, not least out of guilt, because I seem to get off lightly. The past couple of weeks though, have been hard. There were two lists, and my name was on the short one. People I know, and like, were exclaiming “lol I’m on this…
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Speaker Notes: Burning Down The Patriarchy
Edited notes from my talk at UW Oct 15th which was in part a reflection of what had happened at GHC this year. This is the talk I live tweeted. I gave a talk on mobile last week at GHC, and I was feeling a little weird about the level of visibility I was experiencing…