Archive for April, 2012
Bullish: Reg Braithwaite On How Tech Can Help Women, Minorities, And Any Non-Schmoozers
In last week’s Bullish: Tech Skills Are Not Optional For Your Career, I argued that there’s no excuse for being bad at technology, and that it’s not cute to brag about it. I also pointed out that you don’t have to want to work in IT to benefit from having good tech skills – if [...]
Bullish: Tech Skills Are Not Optional For Your Career
I think most people agree that, even if you don’t want to be a writer, it’s important to be able to write. Whether you want to be an opera singer or a relief worker or a mountaineering instructor, you need to be able to send literate emails to people in positions of power and to [...]
Bullish Life: I’m Engaged! What I Learned From Twenty Years of Dating
Oh look, I got engaged! I’m happy and all, but if you talk about that too much, half the women you know are all like, “Bitch.” So, let’s talk about the fact that it is now normal in our society to date for twenty years or more before marrying (or the equivalent). It is also, [...]
Bullish Life: Does “Happiness” Demand That We All Just Chill? (Hint: No.)
I have read versions of this story at least five times: The American investment banker was at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked. Inside the small boat were several large yellowfin tuna. The American complimented the Mexican on the quality of his fish and [...]
Bullish: Be A Badass, Not An Intern
Internships are frustrating for everyone. When you’re applying for internships, it can be demoralizing to find out that no one wants your labor even for free. Even though – unless you have rich parents – you will very possibly have to work some second, paying job (folding jeans at the mall!) in addition just in [...]
Bullish Life: Tomboys, Career Women, Male Models and Other Words We Should Dismiss Forthwith
I got into a Facebook scuffle the other day, and – amazingly – left feeling that my time was well-spent! Basically, in the comments below a post, a man called a woman “shrill.” She called him out for his “coded attack.” I agreed. “Shrill” is like saying, “Your comments keep coming out in this high-pitched [...]
