Fearing Failure

Posted by banane on June 19th, 2009 — in feminism, language, technology

A director friend at dinner the other night mentioned that people fear failure so much they won’t try new things. That it stunts the creative process, too. I’ve never had a problem learning in public- a contentious issue when I was learning Ruby on Rails recently. I asked this on FriendFeed the other day- “name [...]

Feminism in Web 2.0: Cattiness gets me down.

Posted by banane on June 14th, 2009 — in feminism, technology

(part of a series on feminism in tech, in web2.0 world) On Friday, I witnessed some intense, intense cattiness. On Saturday, I was part of a great event – co-teaching Ruby on Rails to 80 some odd men and women who wanted to learn. It was truly touching, the companies and organizations that extended real [...]