http://sepidehsaremi.com Future Internet Lady-Tycoon Sat, 19 Jul 2008 10:21:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en sepideh on 12seconds.tv 12-second video posts. I started trying to use Seesmic but I like this a lot more. I can't wait for them to make video commenting plug-ins... no one should talk for more than 12 seconds, pretty much ever. http://sepidehsaremi.com/2008/07/19/spoke-too-soo/ I'm bored of the Internet. http://sepidehsaremi.com/2008/07/17/a-lot-of-the-same/ I'm going to start a new category on this blog, one that highlights cool lady tycoons who are my role models. Most of the CEOs of the companies I care about are old white men (Rupe, Barry D., Si, even Denton, who may not be old but def qualifies as ... http://sepidehsaremi.com/2008/07/07/lady-tycoons-wenda-harris-millard/ I've been married almost three weeks now and here are my observations on this fine institution (and on the less fine one - weddings): 1. Marriage makes all your fights seem like nothing. We don't fight a lot anyway, but our few fights in the last three weeks have been so ... http://sepidehsaremi.com/2008/07/03/marriage/ So, after a long time of seeing my dream professional life as a big mystery or something out of reach or very convoluted, today I had a clear glimpse of what I want as an attainable thing, something that combines a lot of the things I am good at with ... http://sepidehsaremi.com/2008/06/09/trying-out/ I've always been really resistant to linear thinking or absolutes, especially when it comes to people. I try to see people in a way that's respectful to their humanity, and for me that means not seeing someone as just one thing - their job, age, race, whatever - and especially ... http://sepidehsaremi.com/2008/06/05/spheres/ I had an amazing photojournalism professor in my senior year at USC, someone who made me wish that I'd had his class in my first year so that I could switch my major to journalism and be a shutterbug instead of a writer. Something I still think about. It was a ... http://sepidehsaremi.com/2008/05/11/teachers/ I don't know if this is about disillusion or just hitting a new point on the learning curve, but yesterday I realized that 99% of the people I admire, I don't actually admire. That is, I admire the things they've accomplished, but I'm not necessarily into them as people. It ... http://sepidehsaremi.com/2008/04/26/heroes/ I never thought I would even think those words, but the California DMV has me totally impressed with its very web 2.0 website. You know how most government websites are like Internet versions of Word documents? Not this one! I just renewed the registration for my car and it took about ... http://sepidehsaremi.com/2008/04/21/nice-job-dmv/ Half an hour in, and I am slumped forward in my seat, cradling my head in my hands. Five more minutes and my brain is pulsing against my skull from all the off-key notes. I was led to believe this would be a dance recital. But there is one six-minute dance ... http://sepidehsaremi.com/2008/04/20/musical-freaking-theater/