At Ignite Waterloo a guy gave a talk about "Why All My Ex-Girlfriends Are Crazy". Of course, I was dying to know why. The reason? They were women who having achieved at university and then started their career had got to a point in their lives where they no longer had the same level of stress ...
Recently, I read something that said (I'm paraphrasing): The surest way to mediocrity is trying to be liked by everyone. Shortly after, I met the conspiracy theorist Mike Levin, of Unfolding Magazine to talk about Awesome Ottawa, you can read the article here. I didn't really like the article, but I'm trying to embrace the idea that criticism ...
I've been in a couple of situations recently where I felt I had to apologize for, or justify my emotions. I contend that's unfair - I don't make decisions as a result of my emotions, but I do react emotionally to events. I cry - at the news, at movies, books, at TV shows. I get ...
I really want to blog about a woman in tech today. I think Ada Lovelace day is awesome, and was charmed when someone wished me a happy Ada Lovelace day this morning. However, I have a dearth of role models. Does passively stalking someone on Twitter count as knowing someone? Even with the odd, brief, interaction? ...
Graduating is another word for ending. The ending of your time at university, and the commitments associated with. It's also another word for beginning - the beginning of your next adventure, your next challenge. The next chapter of your life. On Wednesday, I had to go to Kanata to fill in some paperwork for my next ...
Why are you not being everything you can be right now? I have no answer to that. It's time to stop making excuses. From 23 Moments.
Here's the slidedeck! Because I'm presenting in French I've kept text to a minimum: Art, Life and Programming View more documents from Cate Huston. Posts with detailed notes about what I'll be covering and the videos (which won't work from Slideshare - boo!): Part 1: Introduction Part 2: Art Part 3: Life Part 4: Programming
If you look, you'll see the Pareto Principle everywhere. Last week, I saw it in grad school. I was having my 20% - and it was awesome! But it does make me sad about the 80% of my time - this is the time that I spend marking, doing assignments that seem pointless and reading ...
Ignite is a tough format - 5 minutes, 20 slides, and the slides advance every 15 seconds. As such, the talks aren't so much informative as inspiring and I really enjoyed the evening. First such event in Ottawa, but hopefully there will be more to come. You can see the full line up here, however sadly ...
I wonder about this advice. Are there enough scary things out there? Would you not spend so much time scaring yourself that the necessary, but non-scary things, would get left behind? Perhaps I shouldn't be taking it literally. Maybe, it means... push yourself - harder. Aim - higher. Dream. Aspire. Create. Achieve more than you knew you were ...
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