Jacqueline Jensen - Learning Ruby on Rails - 5th Annual LEXI Women's Leadership Summit
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This presentation was given at the 5th Annual LEXI Women's Leadership Summit and was about my journey learning Ruby on Rails.
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- 1. N W E S My Journey to Challenge Myself: Learning Ruby on Rails How I learned to enjoy being the new girl in class
- 2. WHO I AM Jacqueline Jensen (@JackieMJensen) Smart, well educated, responsible, good at social media, PR, and business Co-founder and COO of TicketCake.com Daughter, sister, friend, #VegasTech community member Developer @JackieMJensen, #LexiLV (Nov 2013) 2
- 3. WOMEN IN TECH How STEM Stereotypes Effect Women When women take on STEM careers, unlike men, they risk being judged by the negative stereotype that women have weaker ability. Women hold only 27% of all computer science jobs. Less than 20% of bachelor’s degrees in computer science go to women. Forbes.com/ForbesWomen NPR.org Women experience “stereotype threat” around STEM. An unconscious bias that STEM are “male” fields. 3
- 4. TIMELINE My Life In Tech First job: Format disks for a quarter Begin learning about social channels – Twitter, blogging 1990 2008 1985 1993 Launch TicketCake.com 2010 BORN Microsoft Encarta is released Left day job to create TicketCake.com Middle school, high school, college: Math and science are for nerds. Don’t be a nerd. @JackieMJensen, #LexiLV (Nov 2013) The nerds are making loads of money and there is a shortage of them. I should double down on being a nerd. 4
- 5. M Y I N S P I R AT I O N Powerhouse Women Marissa Mayer Sheryl Sandberg Cyan Banister Tech Queen Advocate Founder + Investor Hacker President and CEO of Yahoo! COO of Facebook and author of “Lean In” Founder of Zivity and a angel investor (Uber, Zappos, PayPal, and more) @JackieMJensen, #LexiLV (Nov 2013) Susan Hinton Developer and advocate of the Syn Shop Hackerspace in Las Vegas 5
- 6. MY DREAM Add Another Layer on the Cake • • • • + Business Development Finance Sales Marketing Developer Tech Super Woman! @JackieMJensen, #LexiLV (Nov 2013) 6
- 7. W H AT H A P P E N E D N E X T ”I’m Learning to Code!” In August 2013, I set a goal. In 2-3 years, I was going to be a proficient developer. (Gasp) @JackieMJensen, #LexiLV (Nov 2013) 7
- 8. P U S H I N G PA S T O B S TA C L E S Reasons Why I Could Have Said No There are many reasons why I could have said no to learning how to code. (And no one would have blamed me for giving up.) I have the skills I need already. It will be too hard to learn to code. @JackieMJensen, #LexiLV (Nov 2013) There aren’t enough hours in the day as is for my startup. I might fail. 8
- 9. FINDING THE YES #VegasTech Made It Easy The #VegasTech community makes it easy to learn a new skill. I joined the Las Vegas Ruby Users Group (@LVRUG) for their weekly meet-ups and met with @VegasTechFund CTOs to get inspired. Seek out free resources online like SkillShare.net. Eliminate excuses. Design your goal. What’s your goal? How will you know you have reached it? How long will take? You’re dumb – it’s ok. Accept being the beginner in the room. Always ask why. Why this goal at this time? @JackieMJensen, #LexiLV (Nov 2013) 9
- 10. M Y M O T I VAT I O N Commitment “Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality. It is the words that speak boldly of your intentions. And the actions which speak louder than the words. It is making the time when there is none. Coming through time after time after time, year after year after year. Commitment is the stuff character is made of; the power to change the face of things. It is the daily triumph of integrity over skepticism.”
- 11. N W E S What’s your next journey? Find your next challenge and practice commitment.
Editor's Notes
- When women perform math, unlike men, they risk being judged by the negativestereotype that women have weaker math ability. Psychologist Claude Steele posed an interesting question about an everyday scenario: Let's say you stopped by a math classroom and saw boys and girls learning together. "The teacher is the same; the textbooks are the same; and in better classrooms, these students are treated the same," Steele wrote. "Is it possible, then, that they could still experience the classroom differently, so differently in fact as to significantly affect their performance and achievement there?" Steele and other psychologists said a psychological phenomenon could be influencing the performance of students. When there's a stereotype in the air and people are worried they might confirm the stereotype by performing poorly, their fears can inadvertently make the stereotype become self-fulfilling. Steele and his colleagues found that when women were reminded — even subtly — of the stereotype that men were better than women at math, the performance of women in math tests measurably declined. Since the reduction in performance came about because women were threatened by the stereotype, the psychologists called the phenomenon "stereotype threat." Stereotype threat isn't limited to women or ethnic minorities, Steele wrote elsewhere. "Everyone experiences stereotype threat. We are all members of some group about which negative stereotypes exist, from white males and Methodists to women and the elderly. And in a situation where one of those stereotypes applies — a man talking to women about pay equity, for example, or an aging faculty member trying to remember a number sequence in the middle of a lecture — we know that we may be judged by it." Over the years, experiments have shown that stereotype threat affects performance in a wide variety of domains.It’s a vicious cycle, says Jocelyn Goldfein, a director of engineering at Facebook. “The reason there aren’t more women computer scientists is because there aren’t more women computer scientists,” she told the Associated Press.3. Combat stereotypes. Female engineers are the brains behind a number of Facebook’s features, such as the news feed and the photo viewer. If more women knew this, perhaps they’d be empowered to jump into the field themselves. We need more visibility when it comes to the work female engineers have already accomplished, so young girls know it’s not just men who are behind technology they use in their everyday lives.
- Stanford.eduThe CS program has seen an 83 percent increase in enrollment in its first two years, and computer science has become the largest major on campus. In the 2011-12 academic year, the department broke the all-time record for students declaring computer science as their major: More than 220 students in that one class alone chose to major in computer science, a 25 percent leap from the previous record in 2000-01. (dot com boom)
- Don’t talk about doing stuff. Do stuff. The world is full of so many talkers, and so few doers. Too much planning is as bad as no planning. “Posting about your plans is shadow of Done“ Make stuff while your brain is young and fresh. The brain gets slower as you age. Figure out what you like. Try to become the best in the world at it. If you start early, you will have time to change your mind. Don’t worry if it’s not “prestigious” or won’t make you a lot of money. If you’re good at it, you’ll make it prestigious. Read “How to Do What You Love” by Paul Graham.
- When women perform math, unlike men, they risk being judged by the negativestereotype that women have weaker math ability. Psychologist Claude Steele posed an interesting question about an everyday scenario: Let's say you stopped by a math classroom and saw boys and girls learning together. "The teacher is the same; the textbooks are the same; and in better classrooms, these students are treated the same," Steele wrote. "Is it possible, then, that they could still experience the classroom differently, so differently in fact as to significantly affect their performance and achievement there?" Steele and other psychologists said a psychological phenomenon could be influencing the performance of students. When there's a stereotype in the air and people are worried they might confirm the stereotype by performing poorly, their fears can inadvertently make the stereotype become self-fulfilling. Steele and his colleagues found that when women were reminded — even subtly — of the stereotype that men were better than women at math, the performance of women in math tests measurably declined. Since the reduction in performance came about because women were threatened by the stereotype, the psychologists called the phenomenon "stereotype threat." Stereotype threat isn't limited to women or ethnic minorities, Steele wrote elsewhere. "Everyone experiences stereotype threat. We are all members of some group about which negative stereotypes exist, from white males and Methodists to women and the elderly. And in a situation where one of those stereotypes applies — a man talking to women about pay equity, for example, or an aging faculty member trying to remember a number sequence in the middle of a lecture — we know that we may be judged by it." Over the years, experiments have shown that stereotype threat affects performance in a wide variety of domains.It’s a vicious cycle, says Jocelyn Goldfein, a director of engineering at Facebook. “The reason there aren’t more women computer scientists is because there aren’t more women computer scientists,” she told the Associated Press.3. Combat stereotypes. Female engineers are the brains behind a number of Facebook’s features, such as the news feed and the photo viewer. If more women knew this, perhaps they’d be empowered to jump into the field themselves. We need more visibility when it comes to the work female engineers have already accomplished, so young girls know it’s not just men who are behind technology they use in their everyday lives.
- Most important when talking on a new journey to challenge yourself, remember what commitment is. Wake up every morning challenging yourself if you are taking a promise into reality.