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Asking questions
Bethany Crystal – Nov 18, 2018
Today my colleague, Dani, and I visited with high school freshmen at Comp Sci High to share a bit about what we do for work. Obviously both of us work in the venture capital industry, but as far as industries [...] Read more
The last unpacking
Bethany Crystal – Nov 16, 2018
There may be no greater sense of satisfaction than the moment that follows a late night organization project. We moved in May, and here we are in November, when we finally emptied the last box. There’s always a place where [...] Read more
The opportunity for CS in education
Bethany Crystal – Nov 14, 2018
My college education was a fairly perfect stereotype: I’m a white woman who studied journalism who married a white man who studied in a STEM field. Interestingly, while he’s the one who majored in biomedical engineering and computer engineering, I’m [...] Read more
Noise-cancelling headphones
Bethany Crystal – Nov 13, 2018
I’ll never forget the first time I put on headphones for my CD player. I was in high school and I’m pretty sure the CD was Moulin Rouge, the movie musical with Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman. In all likelihood [...] Read more
Everybody’s doing it: A short treatise on social “tugs”
Bethany Crystal – Nov 12, 2018
And just like that, many of my close female friends are pregnant. It happened all at once. Except of course, that it didn’t. Some were likely trying for months. Some got lucky on the first try. Some weren’t really “trying” [...] Read more
Making time for what you want
Bethany Crystal – Nov 10, 2018
I’ve been wanting to write more for years. Literally, years. Throughout my life, I’ve had multiple ebbs and flows of my persistence in regular writing. There have been years where I wrote nearly daily, a period where I wrote a [...] Read more
Protecting your tribe
Bethany Crystal – Nov 9, 2018
This evening, in a shop in Hayes Valley, I witnessed a woman enter the store and quietly carry out an entire rack of children’s clothing without paying. The shop-keeper, hearing a slight rustle, turned from me and raced after her, [...] Read more
A big lesson from a little moment
Bethany Crystal – Nov 8, 2018
Our caterers forgot the ice. With 42 minutes to go until our USV Network welcome session began, I had limited time and resources but needed to make it work. The proprietors of our venue loaned me a RadioFlyer red wagon [...] Read more
In the name of civic duty
Bethany Crystal – Nov 6, 2018
Is it bad to cut in line to cast a vote? This was the ethical conundrum I felt as I waited in line at the polls. I’ve never seen it like this before. Every other time I’ve voted, I’ve walked [...] Read more