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It’s different for girls and really different for me, apparently
I read an interesting post by Heidi Roizen with the title, “It’s different for girls.” Ms. Roizen is an admirable person. A successful entrepreneur, venture capitalist and mother. (The latter is relevant as you’ll find if you read her post) This is a quote from her post: Wine was brought and toasts were made to…
So …. then this happened
This is number 11 of 55 things I have learned in almost 55 years. You can find number 10 here , ten days ago, and that brings me to number 11. “Just accept that you can’t always do everything.” I’m very bad at taking this advice, as anyone who has ever met me can…
The best time is wasted
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They’re not dumb, they’re REALLY different
A couple of nights ago, I had a nightmare. I dreamed that I couldn’t do math. I was having lunch with some colleagues and the bill was $24.82. Everyone handed me money and I had $25.67. I was trying to subtract the bill amount from what was in my hand and divide it by three,…
Let them code games about cake
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