January 2012
3 posts
Honestly Now: New Years Resolutions Suck
honestlynow:
It’s no big secret, when you step back and thing about it. New Years resolutions suck. As in, 88% of them fail.
So…honestly, now…what are we doing wrong? Are resolutions worth the effort?
Check out our blog for video clips from Tereza about techniques that work. It’s about personal goal setting, not guilt-ridden recipes for failure.
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December 2011
14 posts
On the Passing of Vaclav Havel
By the People, To the People
Most people who know me know my parents defected from Czechoslovakia, and that its Velvet Revolution changed my life. I went from being “from nowhere” to somewhere. It gave me the opportunity to live for a time where my family came from, at a unique moment in history. Professionally, it opened so many doors for me. Personally, I learned who I am. And...
November 2011
5 posts
"When they called her up to tell her she would... →
changetheratio:
Amazing story of how screen godess Hedy Lamar pioneered wireless technology. Funfact: I first heard of her via Little Shop of Horrors: “Do you want a Cadillac car/Or a guest spot on Jack Paar/How ‘bout a date with Hedy Lamarr? You gonna git it.” Anyone else? Gleeks?
XX for Xmas: A Holiday Guide
honestlynow:
Forget the mall. This Black Friday, get comfy on your couch and browse the best that women-led businesses have to offer.
It’s the XX for Xmas Holiday Guide!
Everything from gadgets to jewels, for everyone on your list — check in early and often, as we have hundreds more to load up.
changetheratio:
Here it is - the video for “Raise Your Cache” from last week’s incredible RaiseCache event for HackNY. Note the ratio. There now, that wasn’t hard, was it?
Very proud of this, the product of many zany hours by myself and my co-producer Phil Di Giulio, co-founder of FrameSocket, the vid platform embedded above (shout-out also to our Mixmaster David Pakman, who took my raw vocals...
Too Much Choice →
Having a headache can give you a headache. Too much choice.
October 2011
6 posts
I.B.M. Names Virginia Rometty as New Chief... →
"Connecting people who can benefit each other is... →
changetheratio:
…and is the skill that women most often give away for free (probably related to how often it’s assumed/requested as a “favor” that you’d obviously do to be “helpful” even though it makes everyone else “money”). Monetize yourselves, ladies and connectors all.
The 9 Skills Needed to Be a Super-Connector [TechCrunch]
Change The Ratio: Happy Ada Lovelace Day! →
changetheratio:
Huzzah, it’s Ada Lovelace Day - the day to celebrate the fantastic and brilliant Ada Lovelace, credited with writing the first computer program. (Pause to dust off shoulders.)
Who was Ada Lovelace, you ask? From Mind/Shift (with a nice Change The Ratio shoutout to boot):
Born in 1815, Ada…
September 2011
8 posts
The Optimist
An old one, but one of my all-time faves.
There are twin boys of five or six. Mom was worried that the boys had developed extreme personalities — one was a total pessimist, the other a total optimist — their parents took them to a psychiatrist.
First the psychiatrist treated the pessimist. Trying to brighten his outlook, the psychiatrist took him to a room piled to the ceiling with...
It's Not Gender Warfare...It's Math.
annaholmes:
(A shorter version of this piece appears in today’s Washington Post. Photo of Google executive and engineer Marisa Mayer via. Headline via.)
Let’s say I was designing a new piece of software to make my life as a writer a little easier. First, I’d program it count how many characters I’d typed out and in what amount of time, in order to document my productivity on any given day....
Tereza wants you to join Honestly Now
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9/11 Reflections
Yesterday we carved out some time to reflect as a family about 9/11. Of course that really meant me and Richard. The kids are too young to get it. We were very lucky. So many were not. Anyway here’s what I wrote…
9/11 changed everything, it seemed, but it was a really weird inflection point for me personally as well. I was fairly newly married and still doing consulting but...
As long as we embrace (or even accept) standardized testing, fear of science,...
– Seth Godin (via fred-wilson)
August 2011
6 posts
1 tag
1 tag
July 2011
3 posts
June 2011
4 posts
Dad
Happy Fathers Day, dad. Miss you.
Love,
terezka
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This is my job. I am so sorry.
Last night a comment troll left about 10 spam comments on my board, hawking iPhone cases, “sexy sexy lingerie”, and Christian Louboutin shoes.
She was a nice comment troll, though. She apologized.
Thank you, thoughtful comment troll!
Rebellion of an Innovation Mom →
Anne-Marie Slaughter is the Bert G. Kerstetter ’66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University.
An interesting piece on raising innovative kids, including observations on which girls tend to grow up into trailblazers. An excerpt:
One of the nation’s leading entrepreneurs recently listened to me pitch a new idea and patiently told me the many reasons it...
May 2011
4 posts