Where Age Is No Barrier
I spend a lot of my time reading and talking about age and employment, specifically within tech. So diversity and inclusion policies and practices are common topics, and I thought I knew my way around them. But until a few months ago, I had …
[Read more...] about Age Equity and How I Added It to My Vocabulary
The in-between is an uncomfortable place. It’s that nebulous and cloudy space between the past and the future. It's uncertain. It's anxiety-provoking. Sitting in the in-between, I have frequently found myself thinking, “How will this story …
[Read more...] about Sitting in the In-Between of Your Career
The worst career advice my father ever gave me was this: Never reveal you know how to type. Turns out, I couldn’t work without typing. Nor could almost anyone today. But my father came from a business world in the ‘50s and ‘60s when …
[Read more...] about Technology Skills and the Worst Advice my Father Ever Gave Me
This week I watched a webinar given by a bestselling author and lifestyle guru, and she was wearing a hat. In her home office. What? The Indiana Jones-style fedora had panache, that is true. But a hat in a webinar? Then it struck me. Roots! …
[Read more...] about Root Problems: Four Truths Gray Hair Reveals About Work and Ourselves
This week Kieran Snyder, CEO at Textio, posted a cringy-in-a-good-way thread on Twitter about ageism in tech. Over the years she’s heard countless engineers use the phrase, “So easy even your mom can learn it.” At first, she had not thought …
[Read more...] about “So Easy Even Your Mom Can Learn it” and Other Insults
