Category: Personal
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April’s Pastry Box thought on writing
I was slow to post aboutmy April Pastry Box post as my realign got in the way. It was really a little insecure thought about how my writing and thinking is improving, but I’m finding it hard.
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Writing on The Pastry Box and my first post on ethics
Today is the day my first “thought” of the year is published on The Pastry Box. When Alex asked me if I wanted to be a part of The Pastry Box project, I leapt at the chance.
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Interviewed by The Learning People
The Learning People have posted an interview they did with me about women in the technology sector, working for myself, and what inspires me.
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I also pledge to be better
This post was inspired by Faruk’s great post “I Pledge To Be Better (And I Hope You Do Too)” where he speaks about the continuing problems with discrimination and lack of diversity in tech, and how more people should speak up about these issues.
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No more Red Bull
Using a Fitbit over the last year and a half has taught me that making your habits more visible in public makes you more likely to work harder.
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Speaking at Dare conference
I’m speaking as a ‘Breakout’ speaker at Dare conference in September. As soon as I saw the rumblings of this conference, I knew it was an event I wanted to attend.
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Ladies In Tech
A while ago, Jeremy Keith introduced me to ladiesintech.com, suggesting that it might be something that’d interest me. After having a chat with the lovely Jenn Lukas over email, I had a story that I wanted to share about my adventures in speaking, and Jenn has now helped me share it on the site.
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Burnout
Burnout. Spending hours just staring into space when you’re supposed to be doing work, when you want to be doing work.
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Women and conferences
I used to not understand the fuss around women at conferences, I thought that we should all just carry on with what we were doing well already and not get caught up in needless controversy.
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A loveletter
Note: I wrote this a while ago when I was thinking about the things that made me want to work on the web.
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