Words matter.

I cannot believe that Google will not fire him for this manifesto. Or at the very least get him into an employee assistance program. This guy needs help. Especially because we are now in the midst of the greatest discussion about gender in the history of Silicon Valley, and the women have decided it’s okay to…

A Glimpse at a Lonely Future

I was walking along Third Avenue in New York City this morning, and I came across the only empty (although…

Before Entrepreneurship 3: New York in the Forties

To a child, New York in the forties seemed safe. As kids, we crossed Broadway to go to the park, we walked around the corner to go to school, and we rode the subway alone by the time we were nine, when Wollman Memorial Ice Skating Rink…

Women’s Movement, Part Two

I’ve been waiting to weigh in on this until the dust settles, but Sarah Lacy’s great keynote at Startup Fest means it won’t settle any time soon, so here’s what I think of the current state of women in Tech.

Are We Still in Control?

I have a prediction: whenever those studies on American productivity growth are next published, they will demonstrate a huge fall off in productivity during Q4 2016 and Q1 2017, as both North Americans and Europeans spend the labor equivalent of days on Facebook and Twitter struggling…

Nobody Can Do it Alone

Do not ask the question “how are you” of anyone in the working poor if you aren’t ready for a long story. And “Hillbilly Elegy” isn’t it, because that book has a happy ending.

Which is exceedingly rare. For most of the poor, life just goes on, and on, and on, a…

Is Your Child Using Sarahah? Better Find Out

I had breakfast this morning with a friend of mine who has a child on the cusp of the teen years. We discussed how the role of the parent has to change during those years because the child will try to separate to grow into adulthood, and the parent…

Oracle Announces Fully Autonomous Database

Did you know Oracle has three connected data centers in Phoenix that it can use for disaster recovery? Neither did I, but I’m always amazed by how Oracle continues to be competitive. Over the past two years, I’ve watched it turn around from an installed…

Learning About the Ocean

We don’t know very much about the ocean, although it covers somewhere between 71 and 75% of the planet. I was a…

Before Entrepreneurship 4: The Fifties

When I was a young girl and my dad managed Pearl Bailey, the musical performer and movie actress, I said that with pride. But I had no idea what it meant. He was her attorney, for sure, but he was also her personal manager, her mentor, her guide and her friend. He spent a great deal of…