February 2012
3 posts
5 tags
11 tags
7 tags
“So here’s my question: if all-male venture capital firms are investing in...”
– Whitney Hess, in her post on the gender ratio of high profile early-stage venture capital firms.
Summary: the teams are overwhelmingly male.
January 2012
8 posts
5 tags
4 tags
8 tags
5 tags
5 tags
9 tags
4 tags
10 tags
December 2011
1 post
9 tags
November 2011
11 posts
13 tags
3 tags
“On two occasions I have been asked, ‘Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into...”
– Charles Babbage, mathematician and computer scientist (1791-1871)
8 tags
7 tags
6 tags
14 tags
6 tags
10 tags
8 tags
5 tags
5 tags
October 2011
18 posts
5 tags
6 tags
14 tags
6 tags
5 tags
6 tags
5 tags
4 tags
3 tags
“The advice I would give [to women in the tech industry] is actually something I...”
– Hilary Mason, chief scientist for the startup bitly
At the same event, Mason emphasized the need to encourage more young women to pursue computer science, not only as a major, but “as a piece of what they take to whatever it is they do.”
We couldn’t agree more.
9 tags
5 tags
6 tags
10 tags
21 tags
8 tags
16 tags
10 tags
September 2011
10 posts
11 tags
10 tags
12 tags
8 tags
10 tags
“It comes up a lot in discussions of women in computer science, women who write...”
– -Life and Code: How does biology explain the low numbers of women in computer science? Hint: it doesn’t.
9 tags
6 tags
Inspiration / Work
While link hopping, I came across wireandtwine.com; they create and sell stuff.
Their studio is in this beautiful barn:
Their lunch breaks look like this:
Their porch office looks like this:
And they make great stuff like this:
I think this is a great work environment to aspire to.
8 tags
9 tags
