Being Geek Chic is a blog about one woman navigating the male-dominated industries of production and tech. It's written by Elizabeth Giorgi, Founder, CEO and Director of Mighteor - one of the world's first internet video production companies. Learn more about Mighteor here.
When I was New to Who, I thought the show could never live up to the hype. How could a family friendly show with weird, lanky actors be so great? Yup. I was wrong.
The thing that I’ve come to love about the show is the quality of the writing. Instead of a regular “Thankful Four” Friday post, I thought I’d do something a little different and share four examples of amazing writing on the show that is subtle, humorous, honest and heart wrenching.
My love of science fiction and fantasy is deeply rooted in its ability to teach me about life while distracting me from my own. I will never be an alien hunter, wizard or hobbit companion - but I still want to be happy. I still want to succeed. These are the things we share.
Here’s four lessons I love most:
What’s your favorite life lesson from a science fiction, fantasy or generally nerdy text?
One of my favorite things about writing this blog is that in a world that can feel SO lonely, I feel like I belong to a family of lady geeks here on the web. Celebrating the women that make up this community seems like not just the right thing to do - it’s a great, great pleasure to see the faces and the advice that these women offer up on this mumbled mess of HTML and CSS.
I’ve been featuring women as Lady Geeks for two years now and I wanted to take a moment to look book and highlight some of the great advice shared by women who have been featured here. I hope their words give you the hope and happiness that they have given me over the last 24 months.
“For me (and many others), the age of 30 felt like a deadline. For what, I don’t know — achieving fame and fortune? Getting married and having a family? But I pushed aside a lot of my passions to try to achieve something that I thought I should be doing. By the time I got a little older, I realized better what I really wanted to do rather than what I thought I needed to do. And I also just stopped caring. And that left a lot of room for enjoying myself and all the things that I’ve always really loved that I had once thought might be a waste of time. Like cartoons.” - Jamie Frevele, one of my favorite Twitterers and a real comedic talent.
“To get girls interested in technology we need to get across the message that it can help them do - and be - anything they like. They don’t need to change themselves.” - Belinda Parmar, founder of Lady Geek TV and ultimate women in tech advocate.
“Don’t believe anyone that tells you ‘Your school days are the best days of your life’. Being an adult rules. You’ll probably never be a ‘grown up’ though.” - Sophie of Sweetcheeks Stitches, an artist with skirts
You can see all the previous Lady Geek of the Week profiles here.
“Men are more like Microsoft: They’ll just make a fake version of what that chick made, then try to intimidate everybody into using their product.”
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Louis C.K. on why the next Steve Jobs will be a woman.
Via Fast Company
Do you agree?
