"A guy friend was speaking at a conference recently, and there wasn't a single female speaker," she said. When she criticized that, he e-mailed her, "You sound cranky. Are you having your period?"She feels that women were finally making headway, and then Web 2.0 rolled around, "and all the chicks disappear."
This amazes me and annoys me. I know I should be as proud as Donna at the summit's 33% chick number, but I want 50% and I want it yesterday. I bet over 50% of IA's are women. I know over 50% of internet users are. I also know other net professions are guy heavy and that'll be reflected onward in tech conferences until that number changes.
Nonetheless, I'd like to offer my services right now as token chick on any tech panel, anywhere. I can speak on topics wide ranging from search to community design, and I always poke holes in sacred cows and sometimes I even curse and mock mac users. I'm a fine addition to any panel.
Joking aside, thanks to Carrie, Jeffrey and Chris for helping me fold last-minute fliers!
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Well-known marketing author, Seth Godin, doesn't want you to buy his new book for sale on Amazon. First off, it's not new. Godin published it in 2005. Second, he published it as an e-book and offered it for free download on his website.
My pal Jonathan Boutelle calls this a "mullet" when a blog lists less info about its posts as they get older, but still lists many many posts. Valleywag has the same configuration. I love this name.
Ask the Wizard says
The hire fast, fire fast approach basically can be boiled down to "it's really almost impossible to understand whether a person is going to be a killer A match before they start working with you day to day, so best to find somebody that seems close enough, and then remove them quickly if they don't work out."
He goes on to talk about why hire/fire fast is harder with some types of emplyees than others, but what he doesn't talk about is how hard firing is for a manager.
In a big company, it's extremely hard due to performance monitoring to avoid lawsuits -- a fire will take 90 days most of the time. But in big and small companies it's hard to fire because --no matter how tough you or your employees think you are-- you really really do not want to have that firing conversation. And it gets put off longer and longer and when it happens it leaves you-- and sometimes your team even if they hated the guy-- feeling rather wretched.
I prefer to use consultants/contractors/agencies to start the team, and hire slow and smart. I do fire fast if necessary, but it always always has a huge price, and it's silly to whitewash that over.
one of the contestants shouted “and we’ll buy everyone free drinks if we win!”. Well, they won by a landslide, a score 10db louder on the meter than the other 3 contestants. Right after receiving their award the winner shouted “ok, but we’ll buy drinks _after_ we get funding”.
As Mena says, "Don't be a dick." The story has a happy ending-- read it.
Royal Carriage Inn goes on my list of places I want to go hide to write.
Cheap, warm, comfy. Wonderfuly kind innkeeper Jennifer. Private cottages as well as rooms in the main house. Free wifi.
