WITI Women Survey Questions and Responses:
1. What was your first job in technology?
Never really had a job *in* technology... just writing about it.
Started doing that at Forbes, where I wrote about Data General and other
computer & software companies (1974-77), and specialized in high-tech when I became a securities analyst (1977-82).
2. Who has been your most significant mentor? Why?
Too many people to list, or none.
3. What has been your greatest challenge and what strategies did you use to overcome obstacles?
I've been incredibly lucky and haven't faced many real challenges, other
than managing my own time.
Esther Dyson answers these questions:
1. What was your first job in technology?
2. Who has been your most significant mentor? Why?
3. What has been your greatest challenge and what strategies
did you use to overcome obstacles?
4. Who has been the most influential person in your life?
Why?
5. What lessons have you learned that would be valuable to
women beginning their careers in technology?
6. What new technology do you believe will have the most positive
impact on the world in the next 20 years? The most negative impact?
On the lighter side:
1. If you could have dinner with any 2 people (living or not),
who would they be?
2. What was the last book you read? What books do you love to recommend?
3. If you were to choose a different profession, what would it be?
4. What is your definition of success?