August 2011
July 2011
Leah Hanson, the only female technical staff member at Fog Creek, on recruiting more women:
The language of competition not only doesn’t appeal to many women, it actually puts them off. Google…
It’s time for another look at two of my favorite tech industry companies and their respective approaches to a user-centered design problem: how to get something adopted by millions of people who…
Amusingly apt piece by Drew Hoolhorst. This bit rung quite true for me, personally:
Before leaving, I peer out of the one window in my outlandishly priced studio apartment, whose price i’m okay…
A great follow-up to my previous post, The Last Psychiatrist has a must-read piece on the Scott Adams topic:
Not being able to easily and fluidly pick up women is maddeningly destructive to…
“… society is organized as a virtual prison for men’s natural desires. I don’t have a solution in mind. It’s a zero sum game. If men get everything they want, women lose, and vice versa.”
This…
In case anyone was wondering why companies recently paid $4.5 Billion for Nortel’s 6,000 patents. (via Kontra)
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Can we do *markdown* or otherwise-applied rich text yet?
Edit: nope.
Randall Munroe on Google+’s mandatory selecting and display of your gender when creating your profile:
Many women grow up with a sense of physical vulnerability that’s hard for men to appreciate….