I’m not much for the “women in tech” stuff — preferring to prove equality rather than beg for it — but sometimes the gender imbalance in this industry is so damaging that it would be unethical for me to not call it out. About a year ago, I wrote a blog post titled The Plain [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Pain'
Photo of the day: Negative Floors
October 19th, 2011 · 27 Comments · Photography
Some buildings label their 1st floor as 1, others as L for lobby or G for ground floor. I’ve even seen it as 0 in European cities where the “1st floor” denotes the first floor above ground level — what Americans consider to be the 2nd floor. But never have I ever seen this: Negative [...]
Tags:Design·Pain·Photography
Elegy for Capitalism
September 11th, 2011 · No Comments · Pain
10 years ago, I was a sophomore in college. I had an assignment in my poetry class to imitate another poet’s style. How I felt then is no different than how I feel now. Elegy for Capitalism By Whitney Hess Imitating Larry Levis Written 11/01/2001 It’s a new love outside A love you’ll never see. [...]
Samantha LeVan’s Lame Cancer
April 1st, 2011 · 1 Comment · Community, Pain
A year ago March 28, my close friend Samantha LeVan sent me a fairly routine email asking me if she could pass my info along to a young web designer looking for a mentor. It was so nondescript that I might have put it off for a few days, busy with other things. I’m glad [...]
Tags:Community·Inspiration·Pain
FONC and the Impostor Syndrome
March 20th, 2011 · 6 Comments · Career, Pain, Productivity
Last week, Caterina Fake wrote about the a social observation she made at SXSW which she called FOMO — Fear Of Missing Out: people checking their Twitter and Foursquare feeds to see who was where, doing what, to make sure that they were in the right place at the right time with the right people. [...]
