Just the thoughts and musings of a middle-aged, aspiring Buddhist, late-diagnosed autistic female genius. You will probably not agree with me, but at least I will make you THINK. The only comments I take are high praise or gently constructive criticism. All others will be duly ignored.
I'm a bit of a privacy nut; I'll admit it. I regularly make trade-offs and choose not to use a product or service, forgoing the "convenience" it might offer me because I have read and do not agree with the privacy policy. Such as with most tech companies in the US, because we have failed …
Continue reading Lack of Tech Regulation Will Hurt American Economic Standing Soon
I've been working on data processing and software for most of my career. One of my best skills in my job is finding the root cause of client-reported data errors in our products. This means that even after a ticket has been created by client support and bounced around to multiple people in my department …
We decided to watch the film Napoleon Dynamite over the weekend. For anyone who isn't familiar, well, I won't spoil it, and I'm no professional movie critic anyway (not that they know anything special). What I will say is that this movie really makes me think about all the examples of the past, times gone …
We are on the precipice of a whole new paradigm when it comes to who works where, how, and for how long. There may be many people who fear such upheaval and would rather just sit tight with the system we have because they had been able to hang on by the skin of their …
Continue reading Compartmentalization, or Why the Labor Economy is Broken
In America, we have a philosophy that things must be ranked, optimized, put in order and our primary way of creating that order is through competition. We judge those who "win" as morally superior to those who "lose" in competition. If you lost a competition, you are encouraged to pick yourself up, dust yourself off …
Continue reading Competition Does Not Always Yield the Best Results
I listened to a podcast the other day where I heard about how people think of the work they do in one of three categories: a job, a career or a calling. Just to give proper attribution (and because I actually REMEMBER where I heard it), this was on an episode of Kelly Corrigan's amazing …
So I got into a "conversation " with a couple of blokes on LinkedIn the other day related to Oregon's governor and a bill she signed related to education policy and standardized testing as a graduation requirement. The article cited was also politically conservative in nature and this series of white men were exclaiming from …
It is only been extremely recently, and outside of my career context, that anyone has ever told me that my thoughts and ideas are valid and valuable, that my creativity and ways of thinking about building systems that minimize risk of error and maximize opportunity for efficiency and accuracy are actionable. Most of the feedback …
Continue reading Mimicry as a Form of Instilled Perfectionism and Low Self Esteem
It is becoming increasingly apparent to me that the largest missing ingredient in the system (substitute whatever system you want) is the ability of people in power, generally abled cisgender white men (and women, depending on context), to understand when it is time for them to step back, make way, hold space, shut up, promote …
Continue reading The Skill of Knowing Where Your Input is NOT Needed
I am taking a short leave of absence from work this week and next due to my anxiety and stress. One of the first things I think of as a tool at my disposal for stress management is to head directly to my local float center. If you are unfamiliar, floating is a practice where …
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