writer. web developer. & other stuff.
Notice I didn’t ask, “Do YOU look bad?” I asked, rather, “Is your PHOTO making you look bad?” Photos can do that – and I don’t mean photos that we think look terrible, but rather photos that we think look perfectly fine, but that are in fact creating the wrong impression about us.
Have you ever looked at someone’s photo on their website and thought, “Ooh boy, that woman looks totally out of date,” or have you seen a photo of a businesswoman that made you think that she’s not ...
I have to get my oil changed. I hate to get my oil changed. So I planned ahead; I would do this detested chore in the least time possible with a minimum of psychic pain.
My Plan for My Day
Here was my plan: I always start my workday early – around 6:30 am, so no big deal to work for an hour, shut down my laptop, and then leave for Big O Tires. I’d arrive 10 minutes before they open, holding at the ready my special discount coupon that arrived in the mail last week. I’d be first ...
Here’s another installment in my “Best Thing Since Sliced Bread” series: an app called Grammarly. It’s awesome. Why? Because it makes me look smarter and more accurate than I really am. Gotta love that, right?
Plus, Grammarly pats me on the head occasionally, and at my age, a pat on the head doesn’t occur very often. Remember that feeling back in first grade when your teacher put a gold star on your paper? Or wrote “good job!” in red pencil at the top of the page? Yep, Grammarly ...
Just sayin’. Or trying to, anyway… Women are interrupted far more often than men are. Mostly it’s men who do it, but women do it too. So if you’re interrupted often, it’s not just you. It’s a persistent and pervasive gender bias. Not complaining. Just sayin’. Be aware. Learn to adapt. And don’t perpetuate it yourself.
Read “How men continue to interrupt even the most powerful women,” by Yonja Jacobi and Dylan Schweers, on Big Think.
Interesting ...
Here’s what they all tell you:
Password Rules Are Hell
According to the rules above, you’re supposed to:
Um, does that sound doable to you?
Heck no. It’s classic circular logic. Catch-22. Absurd. Impossible.
It’s Password Hell.
Most of Us Break the Password Best-Practice Rules
All these great rules leave us right where we started: Nowhere.
So most of us do what humans will do – we cheat. Either we use names and places that mean something to us to help us remember our passwords, or we use the ...
The extent to which people are moving around the globe; traveling overseas, taking extended stays, becoming expats – well, you’d think the whole world was their home.
Wait a minute, the whole world is our home, isn’t it?
More Travel. More Money Moving Around the Globe.
As we grow older, many of us are traveling more, including internationally. Not only might we have more time to travel than when we were younger; thanks to the internet and laptops, many of us can take our work with us, making ...
You’re running around. You’re spending money. You’re starting to feel that familiar holiday-stress, that slippery-slope feeling: not enough time, too much spending.
Your natural instinct is to double down on the hours of holiday preparation, grit your teeth and shell out the money even though it’s starting to feel out of control.
You’re not alone. Holidays are stressful and exhausting for many. This is especially true for women, who are, let’s face it, often the holiday-makers of the ...
Contributing to the common good is one of the very best reasons for becoming more tech savvy. And it’s even better when your use of tech helps people in need (or the planet) at no cost to you, and via a process that makes your donations automatic and effortless. Once you set up your participation, you’ll ask yourself, “Why wouldn’t I do this?”
In the wake of Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, and the massive earthquakes in Mexico (can these disasters ...