[49928] in Cypherpunks
Re: A Cyberspace Independence Refutation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (strata@virtual.net)
Mon Feb 12 20:11:12 1996
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 96 16:47:50 PST
From: strata@virtual.net
Reply-To: strata@virtual.net
To: lmccarth@cs.umass.edu
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com (Cypherpunks Mailing List)
In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 12 Feb 1996 17:46:22 -0500 (EST)
Oh, hey, no problem.
You're not the only one, despite the explicit reference in the document.
Whether I like it or not, this industry is largely centered around and
run by men. I always got a kick out of people's assumptions that my
resume and my writing must "naturally" belong to a guy. Apparently
the dominant paradigm thinks I'm holding my own in the rat race.
I learned to take it as a compliment years ago; the same thing
happened in 3 out of 5 phone screenings for job interviews.
What's really been entertaining is where we did email prescreening and
I showed up for an interview and got to watch someone's mental
transmission popping its syncromesh for a moment. <grin> They always
recover quickly and continue the shift into "interview mode", and I
get that nice warm glow of having broadened someone's horizons.
Cheers,
_Strata
