This morning’s keynote talk at SIGCSE was by Marissa Mayer who is the Google VP of Search Products & User Experience. As she was giving a really good talk, I looked her up in Wikipedia.
Apparently, she was born in 1975. Fuck. That’s the same year I was born.
She did some user studies for Google during her MSc and went to work there when she was done. She did more user studies there, and worked on the original Google web server. She’s also a much better speaker than I am.
So, while I’ve been pissing around teaching a bunch of punk kids computing science, this chicky* has been getting rich by being brilliant. Seriously brilliant: she knows her shit, and it’s very clear from listening to her.
Sigh. Is there an English word that combines the concepts of “crush” and “envy”? I have that.
(*) chicky (chÄkÄ“) n. A woman who is probably often underestimated by misogynists because she is young and attractive, shortly before they find themselves in her wake wondering what happened to their testicles.
March 14th, 2008 at 11:10 pm
I don’t know her, yet I love this woman.
Phil
March 17th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
Yeah, I blogged about her too, once. I believed I called her “my American Idol”. *sigh*