In January, I was killing it. I'd been promoted, work was going well, I lived in a city I love, hanging out with an awesome group of friends and regular girls nights, and I was basically back to "normal" - athletic, but curvy, after 2 major injuries and, y'know, living in Suburbia and having to ...
After my recent experiences, I've been thinking a lot about men. Not in the way where I think they are all misogynistic, sexually assaulting jerks (although yes, my idea of the prevalence of these things is off - I hope). But also just clinging to those in my life who I know have a healthy respect for other humans, ...
My friend and I went to Bangkok for the long weekend. We relaxed in the spa, swam in the outdoor pool, explored the shops, got lost and wondered around the city. Rode in a tuk tuk. I wondered, why it was that we spent more time at the hotel than I would usually. Than I did, ...
Over the past year, I feel like I've been working through the stages of grief about being a women in tech, and I've not been blogging because I couldn't find the words to share the story I wanted to tell. I've denied the extent of the problem. I've got angry. I've bargained. I've cried, and ...
I used to be very into "productivity", but I'm somewhat over it lately. Whilst I still favorite the articles on twitter to read later, I've stopped buying books about it. There's a lot of advice out there, keep a todo list! Keep a done list! Keep a don't list! Various ways to arrange, and schedule, and ...
A long time ago, when I was training in China, I was struggling to learn a form correctly and my master threatened me with no food until I got it right. This seemed like a terrible idea, I mean, it was hard enough to focus and be physical on the small amount of food (mostly chicken) ...
I'm tired of reading novels about drippy pathetic women waiting for a man to rescue them. There are the truly awful - Twilight, for example, "one woman's difficult choice between beastiality and necrophilia". Or the horrifying 50 Shades. By all means, let us have erotica, but what is sexy about a pathetic, spineless woman being degraded? ...
This Thursday, it will be two months since I arrived in Sydney. I came to work on a specific project, and that project came with a pretty ambitious deadline. I don't know if anyone, including the person who thought this deadline up, really believed we would make it. But we did, just about. We as a team, ...
Tell me that I am not alone, in sometimes wanting to run away to an unspecified location, thereafter to never encounter a nerdy boy again. It is at times deeply exhausting to live in a world where the other inhabitants think it's a meritocracy but you know, and studies show, it isn't. It's like flying economy whilst ...
I had a bit of a career crisis earlier this year. I asked myself, when did I become an iOS developer? I did not mean for that to happen. And so I made a plan, where I would diversify, and expand my skills, and explore. There's are many good reasons not to tie your career to ...
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