I will not do your tech interview.

I am terrible at taking tech interviews. Out of dozens that I’ve done, I may never have passed one. My typical pattern goes like this: A serendipitous contact leads to outstanding phone call with a manager or recruiter. I move on to a phone screen with a hiring manager…

Beware of Metaprogramming…

…it rarely pays off.

Why there is more than one women in tech group

Women in Tech groups proliferate, and a community leader questions why

I needed to get this off my chest before I can write what I really want to write. My next post will…

Sensors: primary source of Big Data

How the Internet of Things/M2M/the Programmable Web will require us to think differently about processing data.

The ERT story – public broadcast in Greece

The news cycle has long moved past the closure of Greece’s…

Melanina tem de sobra, não precisa economizar:

não me chame de moreno.

Perguntam por que eu não gosto que me chamem ou que chamem meus pares, negros e negras, de morenos e morenas. E não só reclamo como também corrijo, afirmando: é preto, é preta. Não…

How to be a rockstar moderator

Three tips to make your guests shine at center stage

House of Soda

Coca Cola Houses in the Philippines

Discouragement for future entrepreneurs

For those of you who are thinking of starting up your own company, know one thing — startups are incredibly difficult. Entrepreneurship is not exactly as romantic as it looks from the outside. Here are some of the things I have learnt from experiences of my…

Fresh Grads Listen Up – DOs and DON’Ts for your Job Applications

Job application bloopers which fresh…

I (fucking) love events.

1 year and 3 months ago I started interning for a web dev outfit, on a boat, without a clue what I was doing. 1…

Why Asana Matters

In the struggle to live in the present, the future and the past are walls. They cage us in. As we hurl ourselves against them, bouncing moment to moment from thoughts about what someday might be or once could have been, our ability to engage, to let go – to embrace the time we’ve been granted…

What I WANT to know at 23

With all these lists of “things I wish I knew at 25" I wanted to write a list of things I want to know now. Most will come with experience, but maybe this is a way for me to…

The Lost Art of Watching Movies

I realized something as I sat down to watch a movie the other day: I’ve forgotten how to, in the privacy of my own home, just… watch a movie.

The film in question was Nicholas Roeg’s 1973 thriller Don’t Look Now — you know the one, set in Venice…

Parent Groups: Hell on the Internet

From a Parent who knows

For almost 3 years, I’ve been a mom to a little girl. I had a few close calls. Not in that way, but yea, maybe in that way, too. There was the time a girlfriend dropped off a 2wk old baby to me and…

22 Taps A Click

What is the end of social networking?

What’s Wrong With Us?

Investigating the socio-economic roots of modern malaise

Chat, an era of communication

How web communication has not evolved.From IRC to Whatsapp

Entire Staff of Local Startup Engrossed in Changing of Bulb in Track Light

Multi-departmental effort…

Hello, World!

Big, small, or just right?

Treehuggers And Hippies And Granolas- Oh My!

Sustainability does not have to be weird

Religion

Catholics WERE no better than muslims ARE today, and why they all must go.

Extreme catholics WERE no better than extreme muslims ARE today, and why they all must go.