Alana Karen

A very large roly-poly light brown bunny rabbit wearing a tiny SF Giants ballcap is cuddled by a man wearing a Giants jersey.

please meet Alex the Great, a therapy bunny who works at the San Fran airport and now Giants games to help people who are overwhelmed

LOOK AT HIS TINY BALLCAP. LOOK AT IT.

I recently started to pitch this editorial piece to news outlets, but with #google increasing its VEP offering and the additional #microsoft layoffs last week, I decided to accelerate sharing my… | Al... I recently started to pitch this editorial piece to news outlets, but with #google increasing its VEP offering and the additional #microsoft layoffs last week, I decided to accelerate sharing my hopef...

Re-share - are we ready for a little tech renaissance?

Been waiting all season for this!

Truly awful people This is your trigger warning

I wrote about narcissists, sociopaths, & Machiavellians in the office, aka THE DARK TRIAD. I did not name that, but oooh I love it. Let's learn to recognize the pattern and do something about it. alanakaren.substack.com/p/truly-awfu...

I finally read Careless People (that book Zuckerberg didn't want us to read)

Yep, had thoughts. open.substack.com/pub/alanakar...

Dealing with sub-optimal individuals Or less professional names.

Are you blocked at work by someone in particular? Take a look at my advice for dealing with the sub-optimal people in our workplace. You know I wanted to title this week's newsletter something else :)
open.substack.com/pub/alanakar...

Vision (but not that kind) Believing in what we can't see

Super teaser! Next Substack is up all about Vision. I assert there are 3 types. Wanna argue? Go check it out :)

The problem with leaders Welcome into my lair. It's pretty nice.

I'm diving into meatier issues over on my Substack: this week's delves into what we've gotten wrong about leadership, its duty to serve others, and what we can individually do about it. Take a 👀!

Douchetics - the pursuit of being the hugest douche.

It's about being able to systematically ignore merit for certain people.

That tracks.

For those of us watching Elon run our government, this is exactly how Tech companies work. EXCEPT they don’t have any of those pesky DEI-hires running around and secretly cleaning up messes, fixing data, keeping good people from quitting. Fascinating, isn’t?

#tech #government #elon #elonmusk #dei

Is there more to this? Playing around in a truly clunky fashion

My latest newsletter wherein I describe my terrible marketing strategies and decide to continue the spicy rants because I have a lot of them. And people like my rants, 😎. #bookmarketing #opinions

Companies committed to DEI:

Costco, Meijer, Kroger, Albertsons/Safeway, Giant Grocery, Ben & Jerry’s, Ulta, Macy’s, Old Navy, Nordstroms, TJ Maxx, GoTo Foods including Jamba, Cinnabon, Antie Anne’s, etc., Dollar Tree, Walgreens, Wegmans, Salesforce, and Goldman Sachs. 🥰💕

Not sure what category to pick. Does this count as a natural disaster? Call your Congress members, all!

Yep

On it. Moving business from Amazon and Target there.

Migraines too. It's the swelling I think.

Writing satisfaction! I just finished my first new chapter for The Adventures of Women in Tech second edition. I have to edit, of course, but all 21 pages exist. A page turner about how Tech got so dang traditional. I can't wait to share it this Fall. Posting teasers on LinkedIn :)

Going to start posting here too in an effort to stop actively supporting bad people. Good times.