👋 the ogc digest: apr 17 2024

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mallory contois
April 17, 2024 • est. reading time:9 minutes

👋 Welcome back to the biweekly ogc roundup!

I’ve lately been thinking about the definition of the word ‘friend’. So many communities are built around helping us make friends, when many times it’s something else we're searching for - help, recognition, safety, information, access, etc.

Are the people that can provide those things, friends? Or are they acquaintances, supporters, a network, or something else? How do you define a friend, vs. the types of people you’re seeking out more frequently that still hold value to you? What is a friend, really? Let’s discuss here.

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Member recs: this site for refurbished Herman Miller desk chairs, this better version of corporate l&d training software, this dupe for the row mary janes, this series of short audiobooks that are not about murder despite the name, and this app for creating your own fonts.

Some resources: this site for generating basic legal documents for businesses, this site that helps you choose where to move next, this tool to check if your site is compliant and accessible, this diagram of all the common startup functions and team structures, this article on how to be an effective early stage employee, and this set of resources for running great 1:1s.

A good read: “She built a microcomputer empire from her suburban home” by Gareth Edwards

‘Early in 1982, a female employee wrote to Harp, congratulating her on her success. However, the employee expressed her dismay at some of the things she would hear from male industry figures when she mentioned that she worked at Vector. She told Harp that one man had complained to her about “the awful bitch who was running the company.”

“I sent a nice note back,” Harp remembered later, “and said I especially enjoyed the comment about this bitch running the company because that poor guy is either so jealous or he’s so stupid that he doesn’t have anything else to talk about, and I must be terribly important in his eyes.”

Long before the phrase was coined, Lore Harp was busy living rent-free in many male executives’ heads. ’ [read here]

A newsletter or podcast rec: I couldn’t choose between these two this week!
Museums without men: an audio series highlighting works by women and gender non-conforming artists in major art museums
Brydge club: a newsletter by Ruffin Mitchener sharing stories of female founders and women in VC

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