Please, I want to read Culture Shock! Palo Alto. Michelle Nguyen, who does healthcare software consulting, recently moved to Palo Alto from the East Coast.
On the East Coast, she said, one of the first questions she was asked was about her education. If you have a Ph.D., they take you seriously.
In Palo Alto, among the first questions are (a) where did you go to school? and (b) do you have a blog? It doesn’t help to have a Ph.D. It does help to have gone to Stanford or an Ivy League school. And — most encouragingly — it helps to have a blog. Having a blog, said Michelle, shows that you think and have ideas. Yes, it does.
Michelle’s new blog is “a place for thinking about all things tech, web, and gadget.” Her first entry reviews Microsoft’s HealthVault, which allows you to store your health info online.