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by jenshoop 11y ago
So conflicted about all of the rage and drama around Theranos. On the one hand, it smacks of the conventional backlash against solutions that revolutionize the way things have been done forever, and there needs to be space for innovators to
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by jenshoop 11y ago
May be useful at the enterprise level/in a work context. I will be honest and admit that as an executive at a startup, I often sign up for tools that I plan to later sunset but forget about / think "Well, I might use that nex
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by jenshoop 11y ago
Spot on. There's also been an increasing competitive push between universities to deliver "country club-esque" experiences to students, which further drives up cost. (Separately, let's not forget about the chaos of the
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by jenshoop 11y ago
This is one narrative in an overall spectrum of experiences. Important not to sidebar someone's very real experience or assume every "woman in tech" goes through the same thing, so I welcome the introduction of a new perspec
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by jenshoop 11y ago
Yes, my sister did this -- she was a bright college grad and went through an associate program. Gave her a ton of exposure and helped her then find her niche and accelerate quickly. Let's be honest, know one in college knows what the
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by jenshoop 11y ago
^^ Great advice. I had a college student ask me for input on this very question this morning and my response was not to stress too much about finding "the best, most ultimate company ever to work for," but to find a position wher
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by jenshoop 11y ago
Agreed. My other issue is that people (this author included) tend to misread Sheryl Sandberg's message as prescriptive; I read "Lean In" as a set of interesting insights and observations from a woman who has succeeded in spit
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Recline, Don’t ‘Lean In’ (Why I Hate Sheryl Sandberg)(linkis.com)
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by jenshoop 11y ago
Yeah - I've seen tiered vacation days based on seniority, but I'm wondering specifically about giving some folks unlimited and others a prescribed number of days. That seems to straddle an almost philosophical issue.
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by jenshoop 11y ago
Spot on lackbeard ^^
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by jenshoop 11y ago
Was just having this conversation -- is there any precedent for offering different teams and/or differing levels of tenure different vacation packages? My husband used to work at Groupon and said it was really challenging to give all e
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by jenshoop 11y ago
This was a great point: "There’s more demand for product-focused programmers than there is for programmers focused on hard technical problems." A very talented programmer from Dropbox once told me that if I wanted to attract top e
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by jenshoop 11y ago
I used to balk at anything on the "best-sellers' list," assuming the majority would be poorly-written beach read material, but I realized that there can be compelling reasons to read beyond the literary merit of a particular
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by jenshoop 11y ago
Agreed. This article had a distasteful smugness to it. The author was more keen on bravado-ing his own (self-appointed) business acumen than exploring why Mayer's strategies did not work. Come to think of it, the author was really call
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by jenshoop 11y ago
In addition to this -- I'm not sure I understand why the primary discourse around this text is whether or not it conforms to a particular literary movement/genre's specifications. Those are all constructs that help us histori
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by jenshoop 11y ago
This is super powerful, @magic_man, in terms of orienting the field around designing solutions that meet users where they are (vs. approaching design from a "remediation" vantage point). I previously worked for a non-profit workin
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by jenshoop 11y ago
Agreed. There was a crazy study that showed that 75% of American workers identify their boss as the worst and most stressful part of their job and that 60% of US workers would take a new boss over a pay raise. But you're at such a disa