To marry a geek, propose like one. Engaged! (Yes, on Twitter, like real geeks.)
(photo by Ken Yeung)
If you want to marry a geek, you should propose like one. That makes Twitter and Facebook mandatory. Optional, but highly desired: a room full of San Francisco’s tech elite. At least, that was good enough for me, and I’ve managed to get very lucky.
At AT&T Unix Labs, Laura La Gassa helped maintain the C libraries and several standard Unix utilities. She was the build engineer for the first Pentium ‘C’ compiler. From there, she was an engineer in five silicon valley startups, though she’s spent the last ten years as a competitive ballroom dancer (and maker of dresses for same). They don’t come much prettier, more wonderful, or more geeky. (I’ll spare you lots of other adjectives I’d carry on with at length.) Fortunately, even though I’ve gone longer than she without coding, I have a small bit of my own geek cred, and was up to the task.
You can find the proposal (and about 150 reactions) in Laura’s Twitter favorites. A few blog posts (with pictures) about the evening:
http://technologizer.com/2009/11/20/a-night-to-remember/
http://bub.blicio.us/the-twitter-proposal/
http://sunshinemug.blogspot.com/2009/11/twitprosal-at-tech-halls.html
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Dale Larson, CPCC, ACC, Executive Coach to Entrepreneurs, Startup Happiness
Prior to becoming a coach, I'd been a CEO, a software engineer, a marketer, a rocket scientist, book publisher, editor and author, a personal trainer. Yeah, I was also the guy at the front of the iPhone line; all four times. iPad, too.
I mostly write about startups, marketing, business, and technology (especially mobile, social and web), and sometimes about other interests such as travel and health. Dale is certified by CTI and is a credentialed member of the International Coaching Federation.