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WITI Women | Nori-zso Tolson

WITI Women Survey Questions and Responses:

4. Who has been the most influential person in your life?
My partner, Terry Green has been the greatest influence in my professional life. We've lived and worked together for 12 years and in that time have developed a very complementary way of working. I feel I've had the opportunity to develop my own unique expression in our work together. Where we live and work is really a playground where we can explore our interests.

5. What lessons have you learned that would be valuable to women beginning their careers in technology?
Choose a field that keeps you curious. Every job, no matter how glamorous, will be tedious and boring throughout the day. It should have something about it that really gets you excited. All careers demand a great deal of tenacity. Set big goals for yourself and then don't give up. We're free to design our lives as we choose, so only take what you really want because in the end you'll have to live with what you chose.

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?
The Internet will have the most positive and negative influence on people over the next 20 years. On the negative side it is yet another means to promote the value of excessive consumerism (biting the hand that feeds me . . . ) Advertising tends to make people feel poor when they don't have whatever that essential (and usually pointless) object of the moment. On the positive side it provides the most incredible reference library and means of communicating with people all over the world. It has the potential of promoting a real understanding and shared knowledge among people.

Nori-zso Tolson 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 couldn't do what you are doing now, what profession would you choose?
4. What is your definition of success?

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