Adventures in Corporate Education

In my last post, I talked about the Gervais Principle and the Company Hierarchy diagram:

Notice the huge bottom layer of “losers”. Losers isn’t necessarily this sort of loser:

But as Venkatesh Rao (inventor of the Gervais principle) explains, loser is more in the economic sense. You have this huge mass of people who give up their [...]

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The statistics speak for themselves.

24% of professional IT jobs are held by women, even though 57% of professional jobs are held by women
In 2008, 56% of all AP test-takers were female, 51% who took the calculus AP test were female, but only 19% of the Computer Science test takers were female.
In 2008, 57% of people [...]

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I knew this post was coming…someone who did not appreciate the views that were expressed in the outside circle session on the lack of women speakers at Pod Camp Boston. I knew it was coming because she posted earlier that “self hate is not sexy”. In her post about the circle she said:
Basically, I feel [...]

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This past Saturday I attended the Simmons School of Management Leadership Conference. EMC is one of the main corporate sponsors of the event.
Here’s my recap of how the day went for me:
Opening Remarks
In addition to the leaders of Simmons School of Management, leaders from the primary corporate sponsors gave the opening remarks. Bill Teuber, Vice [...]

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Yesterday was Ada Lovelace Day. I was supposed to write a blog post about a woman in technology that I admire. But schoolwork and end of the quarter work overwhelmed me, and I am a day late with this post.
I decided to write about one woman I’ve worked with and one of EMC’s Distinguished Engineers.
I [...]

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