A well-written and researched piece. Two snippets:
'She will bring a tub of blueberries to a meeting and just stare at you, popping blueberries into her mouth. People feel so dismissed.”
Great way to unnerve your peers! And here's what, I think, to be a very accurate assessment of the Find the Lady game (shy nerd, powerful woman, company savior) that Mayer perfected:
"Another [...] thinks that Mayer figured out very early on that being a female engineer—a rarity in a culture that reveres engineers—gave her a pass that other women without that credential would never have. After all, her flaws, like her habit of being late, are easily fixable—should she care to fix them. “This idea that she is shy and just a quiet engineer is such fucking bullshit!” the executive says. “She is savvy about knowing that it makes her Teflon.” '
A great piece, I agree. Vanity Fair has some great content. I like Mayer. She does things her way, like any other CEO, yet imo much more charismatically.
At Google there was a wall of articles about Marissa in building 43 as I recall. Basically various pieces that had been done on her by various magazines. It always struck me as out of place, too much focus on an individual vs on their works. This reads very much like those pieces. "Ooh look how geeky she is!" I appreciate what she has done for Yahoo!'s stock price, would love more focus on getting moribund engineering organizations moving.
If so, and if it has the stock price next month, I might read it.
But magazines have always had the issue marked month n on the stands in month n - 1. Nowadays HN usually has on Tuesday the articles that will appear in the next Sunday's NY Times magazine.
I swear, the term "goddess" is the indicator of the feminine equivalent of machism. Amazing there's no word for that (I'm assuming "feminism" doesn't qualify).
Will all those who poured hate and bile on @bnoordhuis for gender specific pronouns or @antirez for his views on sexism in IT please step forward and throw rotten tomatoes at Bethany McLean, the author of this sexist tome? Thank you.
I agree, but from the way you've written this I suspect you don't quite mean it, and that you are deliberately ignoring the various obvious reasons why this will not turn into a clusterfuck of assholes arguing for days in order to make a disingenuous point about 'double standards'. If that's not what you meant, I apologize for the misinterpretation.
Instead of concentrating in the price of its stock, Yahoo should concentrate on making its products better. Yahoo Mail sucks compared to Gmail or even to Yandex.Mail.
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[ 4.8 ms ] story [ 34.1 ms ] thread'She will bring a tub of blueberries to a meeting and just stare at you, popping blueberries into her mouth. People feel so dismissed.”
Great way to unnerve your peers! And here's what, I think, to be a very accurate assessment of the Find the Lady game (shy nerd, powerful woman, company savior) that Mayer perfected:
"Another [...] thinks that Mayer figured out very early on that being a female engineer—a rarity in a culture that reveres engineers—gave her a pass that other women without that credential would never have. After all, her flaws, like her habit of being late, are easily fixable—should she care to fix them. “This idea that she is shy and just a quiet engineer is such fucking bullshit!” the executive says. “She is savvy about knowing that it makes her Teflon.” '
Is this an article from the future?
But magazines have always had the issue marked month n on the stands in month n - 1. Nowadays HN usually has on Tuesday the articles that will appear in the next Sunday's NY Times magazine.
[edit: changed "if has" to "if it has"]
Will all those who poured hate and bile on @bnoordhuis for gender specific pronouns or @antirez for his views on sexism in IT please step forward and throw rotten tomatoes at Bethany McLean, the author of this sexist tome? Thank you.