Pleasure and Pain

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Entries Tagged as 'Realizations'

A Brief Recap on Year 4

February 2nd, 2012 · No Comments · Blogging

2012 started off with a bang and my mind has been moving at a million miles a minute ever since. I managed to miss a few important milestones and never got around to taking the time to reflect on the year here. I suppose I decided that dwelling on the past (even if it yielded [...]

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The plain numbers about women in tech – The VCs

January 31st, 2012 · 31 Comments · Community, Pain

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 [...]

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My 2011 Holiday Gift Guide of Pleasurable Experiences

December 9th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Digressions

Stuff is cheap, in the long run. At the end of our days, we’re not likely to remember the things we acquired as much as the moments we experienced. This holiday season, reconsider the packaged goods you’re intending to buy for the people you love. Instead, design an experience for them they’ll never forget. Here’s [...]

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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. [...]

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The Work I Love

March 5th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Consulting, Pleasure, User Experience

The work I love is about helping companies who love their customers discover how to be better to them…not convincing them to care. The work I love is about empowering customers to get the service they deserve…not trying to get them to buy into what they don’t really need. The work I love is about [...]

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