The feeds are busy today

[marsden_online]

OK, so I also got up late on this grey gray day, but here it is nearly 11am and I've just finished my morning reading. A couple of unrelated items just as quickies:
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Augmented reality turned up to 11

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Clay Shirkey rants about women

This comment about giving other people veto power over your actions is equally applicable for those of us who aren't women but nevertheless still have issues with putting ourselves forward :)

It’s tempting to imagine that women could be forceful and self-confident without being arrogant or jerky, but that’s a false hope, because it’s other people who get to decide when they think you’re a jerk, and trying to stay under that threshold means giving those people veto power over your actions. To put yourself forward as someone good enough to do interesting things is, by definition, to expose yourself to all kinds of negative judgments, and as far as I can tell, the fact that other people get to decide what they think of your behavior leaves only two strategies for not suffering from those judgments: not doing anything, or not caring about the reaction.

Comments

[martial-lore.livejournal.com]

That rant was indeed interesting. Self-promotion is certainly not something I find easy.
My sister works in sales, so promotion is what she does... and she said she just thinks of it as "communication".

But of course, to communicate something, it's usually necessary to think that there's something of worth there to communicate, particularly in comparison to everything else that could be communicated. So that's the first hurdle, and why men (as the article says) find that easier, I do not know.