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Highly recommend reading Kathy Sierra’s article about how learning isn’t a push model.

In case you were not aware, Kathy Sierra has a new book!

Here’s a link to another Kathy Sierra article talking about focusing on helping users kick ass over showing off how you kick ass (she’s the best).

If Kathy Sierra isn't comfortable/can't handle/plain spooked by the effects of the spotlight, why would I want to pressure her back into it?

- Coming of age during the birth of marketing 2.0 -- The Cluetrain Manifesto, Seth Godin, Kathy Sierra, Hugh McCleod, etc.

There are plenty of experts who are women who are not Carin Meier or Sarah Chips or Kathy Sierra, just as there are expert men who are not Uncle Bob, David Hansen, or Paul Graham.

I sort of wasted my night last night reading old archived posts put up around the time Kathy Sierra quit blogging, and try to draw some conclusions on the differences in blogging style from 2007 to 2009.

* Kathy Sierra * JWZ * ESR (okay he's a bad coder, but still) * Zed * _Why * The MIT Introduction to Algorithms instructors who clearly spend time making their lectures entertaining as well as informative.

That's true of the majority everywhere, I think, but the minority in this case has a disproportionately large impact -- for example, in running Kathy Sierra, a highly competent professional with a great deal to contribute, out of the industry entirely.

You might not like the way he says it, but go back and read the article: Kathy Connor, an executive at Kodak, told Roth the company didn’t develop a better film for rendering different gradations of brown until economic pressure came from a very different source: Kodak’s professional accounts.

Have you read "Head First Java" by Kathy Sierra?

Kathy Sierra explicitly called out one of her harassers weev and his posse (def not what you'd call a "Social Justice Warrior", and weev initially copped to harassing her and has been trying to deny it subsequently).

Kathy Sierra in "Badass: Making Users Awesome" said: "An important, unconscious way to develop expertise is being around high-quality, high-quantity examples of expertise." The flipside is apparently true: exposure to mediocre examples begets mediocrity.

Love that Kathy Sierra article about learning - remember reading "Head First Design Patterns" about 10 years ago, first impression was how tacky all the clip-art looked, but I ended up really impressed with how engaging it was.

Kathy gave a talk at Business of Software a couple years back on the same topic.

Kathy Sierra spent years maintaining a low public profile due to online threats against her.