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wide open creative exploration (in order to understand people
and their motivations as well as their problems). As a woman
thinking about these complex issues, you have a rich and deep
understanding around details like safety and privacy but also
around tone and cooperative communication and gathering
feedback. You also have this ability to obsess about the details[6]
others may ignorantly avoid. That's not even the faintest
outline of the unique characteristics women bring. When
half of all consumers are women, being able to tap into those
women to use your product is obviously huge. not enough
women capitalize on this advantage, but that doesn't make it
less meaningful.
act iii - conclusion
Technology Is Awesome
Being a woman in technology means being surrounded by
amazing technology and crazy smart and ambitious people all
the time. Being a technical woman means being able to join
in on the fun and building things for people as a path toward
making their lives better. How awesome is that?
[1] Additional context: There are a lot of overlapping yet ultimately
distinct cultures in SV right now. There is the
founder culture and within that there are established
founders and so-called founders of products that are even
more likely to fail. There are run-of-the-mill engineers
and so-called 10x engineers. There are designers and
product managers, each with its own 10x variety. There
are people who speak at conferences and are good at promoting
themselves and there are people who are actually
extremely talented and fly under the radar completely.
on top of that there's what the press cares about and
the press cares about founders and sometimes managers.
There are precious few women founders, and of that
small subset, they are generally not established founders
with proven successes who are also technical. (I can only
think of one woman who has founded a company that had
a chance of succeeding, and she's amazing and talented
and impressive but not technical.) As a result, most articles
that are written about women are almost always
exclusively about women in tech who are managers (prod-
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