Ada Lovelace Day 2010
So this is one of the blogposts I have been looking so much forward to writing – I have been knowing that ALD10 (Ada Lovelace Day 2010) has been coming for a while, And it’s a perfect opportunity to pay tribute to some of the women in technology – especially the ones that has enlightened my year since Ada Lovelace Day last year ( you can see my post from last year here)..
There is a lot of talk everywhere about that all these underground things that some of us has been geeking around with for years and years are turning mainstream – and therefore are less interesting. Au contraire I would say – I think ANYONE who puts creativity and online/offline together can help make the world a better place in some way or another – The internet is not elitary – and if it is – I don’t want to be a part of it (I know that some parts of it looks like the advertisement industry, where it becomes more about showing of digital machines but that’s not really the part of the internet Im in).
Women in Tech has been such a key issue for me, because I have felt it for so long on my own body. I have felt the “well if you’re into the internet and stuff then you must be an übergeek” and the “tell us how we are supposed to engage women perspective”. I have been on women panels and I have been compared to all kinds of witches and bitches because I was a woman. I don’t really need that any more. I think it’s important to set up a framework that allows you to be yourself and where you’re focusing on being the best yourself you can ever be – and not another incarnation of a diva/princess/pippi/goddess/witch/insertyourfavoritewomen here. I am Henriette Weber – for good or worse and take me as I am. I live in my own magic world and see things that no one else sees with my perspective. Let’s have a party around that ?
My Ada Lovelace this year is me. Because I deserve it. Because I have been working so hard to get here. Because I have never loved myself as much as I do these days. And because I think if you make your Ada Lovelace this year yourself – you would have come a long way. Give yourself the credit for being cool ! because you are. Take a couple of hours to make a radical self love bible (you can see mine here) and start putting things in that embraces you and makes you feel good. Stop whining, start moving, start looking yourself in the mirror and find your rolemodel instead of seeing everybody else as your rolemodel. It’s deadimportant.
Create your own reality girls – because it’s out there to be created – you just have to want it bad enough and start connecting the dots in your own way – because you can. Do it yourself! publish that book. Make your own TV show for all I care, save the world – because we can. Get those shoes and that bag!
We have all the tools in the world to make things happen. Still they are only tools and they need you to work them in order to actually be effective.
Im so grateful to be around a lot of smart and creative ladies everyday – and here’s my other Ada Lovelace’s (that has meant the world to me this last year, and who has given me so much and supported me in so many ways:
Paula Marttila
Annika Lidne
Heidi Harman
Brit Stakston
Elmine Wijnia
Natasha Friis Saxberg
Benja Stig Fagerland
Lydia Leavitt
Brynn Evans
Julia Lahme
Christiane Vejlø
Ida Tin
Stine Mathieu
Nanna Thorhauge
Lene Aarup Vinther
Stephanie Booth
and a special special call out to the one that got away – Laura Kiralfy. miss you more everyday girl. Im sure Helsinki is sooo much more with you (and I know that Copenhagen is so much less without you =( Rock that creativity – don’t be bored. You know what to do…)
thank you ladies – you rock =) Thank you for your friendship and your inspirational work – keep on going – we’re almost there=)
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