Earth-shattering project ideas. Resumes. Things in between.
Feel your cheeks ripple in the wind as you ride the roller-coaster down gracefully sloping curves of a cursive logo with just the right kerning to keep the wheels tracking at the ligatures. Cling to your equilibrium as you make the loop around the top of a capital letter and the whole world is briefly upside-down, then screaming towards you, and WHOOSH as the calligrapher flourishes a descender.
Now that you are properly refreshed, enjoy the rest this brochure at a more leisurely pace.
Here’s what got me my current job.
Originally computer technology was female-dominated. Did you know that? Yes a handful of men claimed most of the early fame, and there were misogynistic times, but…
If you’re a girl contemplating a career with computers, these people offer girl-focused programming boot-camps and other resources. Or you could choose to deny the hegemonic perpetuation of stereotypes and learn it all from books, practicing at home in your spare time the way I did when I was a little girl.
If you were born male but find masculinity unfulfilling or less-than-thrilling, this website can turn you into a girl if that is your true heart’s desire. Unlike deals made with devils, this is something you can safely back out of at any time if it stops working out for you. Gender-dysphoria is not necessary for this experiment – but remember that the dry is known by getting wet, the dark by seeing light, and warmth by feeling cold.
If you spent too long denying your intrinsic girlhood, it may be hard to sit like a girl, but this short document will get you back on track.
You may be curious what masculinity means to me and why I forsake it. That’s the extremely short “let me sum up” version. I have much more detailed notes, but they don’t really belong on the web.
The essays, homilies, and ravings linked here address some of my own ducks. I make no claim to perfection: evolution is still possible, and feedback is encouraged.
Some ideas at the far reaches of deep design-space in computing may, if brought too close to our familiar reality, pose the speculative risk of igniting a false-vacuum transition to bring the entire industry to a lower energy state with completely different empirical characteristics. They may also be just plain bonkers.