Where the standard is tightening, in public.

Since 2017, I have had over 2,400 conversations with women in business about money, power, and what technology actually owes us. These essays are where I work that thinking through in real time. Check Your Default Settings is where that thinking landed clearest.

Some are rough. Some have held up better than I expected. I have left them as they were written because watching the standards tighten in public is the point, not a side effect.

Money, sex and gender, and politics have never operated independently of each other in any woman's career, and 2,400+ interviews make that case in cumulative detail. The same thread runs through the Money, Sex & Politics podcast and throughout everything we are building inside Leading Ladies LLM.

Rose Kaz 8/8/23 Rose Kaz 8/8/23

Tech for Good: Buying Back the Internet

What happens when the wild, wild west of the Internet is bought back by women? Not just any women. Specifically women who don't look like women who have traditionally climbed the ranks in big tech. Ada Lovelace wrote the first algorithms. Grace Hopper wrote the first compiler. It is time to finish what they started.

Rose Kaz 4/4/23 Rose Kaz 4/4/23

I Never Really Felt I Belonged

I never really felt I belonged. Anywhere. Until one day I began to notice why, and how I could maybe, just maybe one day, find belonging. Inclusivity matters to me because I know what it feels like to search for it. And I've been searching since inception.