December 2011
10 posts
“TechCrunch and writer Penelope Trunk knew they were going to start a flame war when they posted this article last night: “Stop telling women to do startups”.
The basic premise? “We need to get more guys who are running tech startups instead decide to be stay-at-home dads.
What do you think of that? Stupid, right? That’s what it sounds like when anyone suggests that we need to get more women doing startups.” —
The basic premise? “We need to get more guys who are running tech startups instead decide to be stay-at-home dads.
What do you think of that? Stupid, right? That’s what it sounds like when anyone suggests that we need to get more women doing startups.” —
Being Geek Chic: New rule for talking about women & startups
When I went to participate in a startup accelerator program two time zones away for three months, my husband — who has a full time job as a developer at Google — took care of our kids alone for three months.
If you’re serious about your career, marry someone who’s serious about doing half of the childcare.
(via lifeandcode)
or just don’t have kids. because that’s also an option and a good one for some.
karaj: so much kindness this week →
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“so it is not that real kindness requires people to be selfless, it is rather that real kindness changes people in the doing of it, often in unpredictable ways. real kindness is an exchange with essentially unpredictable consequences. it is a risk precisely because it mingles our needs and desires with the needs and desires of others, in a way that so-called self-interest never can. (the notion of self-interest implies that we always know what we want, by knowing what the self is and what its interests are. it forecloses discovery.) kindness is a way of knowing people beyond our understanding of them.”
kindness is a way of knowing people beyond our understanding of them.
God damn it, the NYT scooped me →
nytimes.com
and I’m too tired to post about it right now.
November 2011
23 posts
“It’s like pulling two magnets apart,” she said to my quivered laugh as I wiped tears from my eyes an hour later than I was supposed to leave. Multiple “goodbyes” and hugs ensued and I carefully made my way down her front stairs, examining the view, her view of the Pacific with each step. Funny how only the first and the last days brought full sun to this far end of the country. Deep breaths, reluctant steps and I found myself on the sidewalk. She opened the door and shouted “I love you!” then quickly closed it again still peering out the window and I found the car to drive away.
A year is just too long to go without seeing my favorite person in the universe. May that never happen to us again.
Hiked a rainforest next to a glacial river in the most-western peninsula of the lower 48. Rain on Thanksgiving morning means there is no one on the trail and sightings of 3 HERDS OK ELK, at least TEN salmon, 2 bald eagles and a family of deer. After the hike we weren’t quite done so we headed to the Pacific to catch the only rays of sun found all day as we watched the weather blow by then headed home to make dinner and play cribbage (I won). Dinner was topped off with mulled rum cider and a cigar and now I’m reading Scientific American in front of the wood stove.
This is exactly as I imagined. Thank you, America.
“I was there to take down the names of people who were arrested… As I’m standing there, some African-American woman goes up to a police officer and says, ‘I need to get in. My daughter’s there. I want to know if she’s OK.’ And he said, ‘Move on, lady.’ And they kept pushing with their sticks, pushing back. And she was crying. And all of a sudden, out of nowhere, he throws her to the ground and starts hitting her in the head,” says Smith. “I walk over, and I say, ‘Look, cuff her if she’s done something, but you don’t need to do that.’ And he said, ‘Lady, do you want to get arrested?’ And I said, ‘Do you see my hat? I’m here as a legal observer.’ He said, ‘You want to get arrested?’ And he pushed me up against the wall.”
—Retired New York Supreme Court Judge Karen Smith, working as a legal observer after the raids on Zucotti Park this Tuesday, via Paramilitary Policing of Occupy Wall Street: Excessive Use of Force amidst the New Military Urbanism (via seriouslyamerica)
Civilian
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Civilian - Wye Oak
