Young Tech Workers, Supermodels and Moore's Law

Forget supermodels. It may now be young tech workers in Silicon Valley who have the shortest careers around. It’s enough to make you pity all those 25-year-old coders.

Unlike the prior generation or two here in Silicon Valley, who got a job and worked at it for five or more years, today's tech workers seem to have a super short-shelf life. After all, there's a new crop graduating from college (or dropping out of college) every year, eager to work 24/7 and ready to push the old-timers — you know, the 28 and 29-year-olds — right out of the job market.

Of course, this is great for companies looking for a young, enthusiastic workforce, willing to accept lower salaries in exchange for a potential stock bonanza. (Assuming they remain employed long enough to vest their shares.)

It's not just tech startups who prefer the young. Even the more established tech companies prefer younger workers, and it’s no longer just aging engineers who face an uphill battle finding a job. Nowadays, the preference for younger workers in tech cuts across job descriptions: sales, marketing, administration, accounting, the legal department, you name it.

Good Reads for Busy Women

The New York Times list of the 100 most notable books of 2011 was notable for two reasons: one, because neither of us had read any of the books; and two, because we’d hardly even heard of any of them. Many of our friends were similarly confounded.

Obviously, what the critics think we should be reading is a far cry from what smart, busy women are actually reading. And a book that gets the thumbs-up from a woman who had to sneak in a few pages after the kids went to bed and the email was answered might be more to our liking than one that’s recommended by someone who is paid to read books, even when they stink.

So we put out the call. Here’s what we got: The few books that insanely busy women are actually making time to read – and that you might find worth some of your precious time, too.

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