Think Less, Experiment More: 5 Lessons on Entrepreneurship

Posted on Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

A guest blog post I wrote for Women Grow Business:

Working for Microsoft, Google and Apple, I not only became a better engineer – I became a better entrepreneur. Their successes and failures, encapsulated in these [...]

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In Defense of Outsourcing

Posted on Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve started outsourcing. A lot. Most of the outsourcing goes to an (awesome) assistant in the Philippines, who does everything from online research to document editing. She’s great, [...]

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One Year Post-Google

Posted on Monday, April 20th, 2009

Last weekend marked my one year anniversary of leaving Google. So, with that said, here’s my one year re-cap!
What have I been doing?
EmptySpaceAds: I joined EmptySpaceAds as its VP of Engineering, where I helped [...]

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TechCrunch: "Why Google Employees Quit"

Posted on Monday, February 2nd, 2009

Last week, TechCrunch re-posted snippets from an email list for former googlers. This article was set up to make an obvious conclusion: Google is not the fairy tale land of employment.
Wait, wait, you mean [...]

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Drink for the Cure / Bid for the Cure – Charity Auction

Posted on Thursday, September 11th, 2008

I usually don’t cross-post Seattle Anti-Freeze events, but this one’s for a good cause…
Drink for the Cure / Bid for the Cure – Charity AuctionOct 1, 2008 at 8pm (Location TBD – Belltown / Downtown)
Every [...]

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Argentina Safety Regulations

Posted on Sunday, May 18th, 2008

One week in Buenos Aires really makes you appreciate the things the U.S. gets right – simple things, like safety regulations. The sidewalks are uneven and have gaping holes. Lane dividers in the [...]

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Why I left Google

Posted on Saturday, May 10th, 2008

Yes, folks, it’s true. April 11th, almost three years after my first day as a Googler (or “Noogler”), was my last day. Did I hate it? Did something go horribly wrong? [...]

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Am I a Feminist?

Posted on Monday, February 11th, 2008

More than one friend has read my blog and asked, “when did you become such a feminist?” The assumption is, of course, that all feminists must be bra-burning and man-hating lesbians. Having never [...]

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Blue Screens and Web Apps

Posted on Friday, December 7th, 2007

My laptop, which I fear is on its last legs, got a little servicing today from Dell. It’d been blue screening frequently since, well, since Dell last visited me two months ago (broken fan [...]

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Recruiting – The Pot Calling the Kettle Black

Posted on Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

I just started subscribing to Microsoft’s Job Blog – I figured it might have some info related to CareerCup (my own site related to interviewing, with lots of technical interview questions).
The most recent post gives [...]

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