Career building. An excerpt of inspiration that went nowhere.

I am looking for a change
I am ready for a new challenge
I'm looking for an opportunity where I can prove my ability to execute flawlessly
And do something smart
Really, I love technology. I consider myself a technologist.
And use my energy in a way where the amount I put in will be directly productive
Sometimes sales is spinning wheels
I've gotten good at breaking down barriers but I want to use it for impact work. Or at least, real knowledge development.
I am really insanely passionate about Geo.
And how it relates to this fantastic country, mexico.
I brought evidence.
Working in tourism promotion was undoubtedly the coolest introduction to mexico I can imagine. I feel like I really know how to sell this country. And I've learned invaluable things about how business is run. And now I have a lot of local confidence after a couple of years, I want to build something here. I want to be a part of this movement, this data equality and access movement. I care more about the human tech experience than I do about media. For me, media is a distraction to tools.
It's in the next integration of digital tools which gets me excited. And jesus, imagery. Holy moly.

What is your teams mission?
What are the engineering expectations?
What are you looking for in an ideal candidate?
The position describes target cities. Do you have a list in mind?

Appreciation

I appreciate you photocopy list to people I appreciate

I appreciate you in a spiky bubble

Everyone at work basically

Ricardo - mail
Torey- mail
Mama - mail
Betsy
Kate
Kim
Kelly Sc
Kelly St

Here:
Marie
Eme
Charlotte Lim
Gemma
Vladi
Bren
Rafa
Anna
JC Calles

Tell brian and roger straight up haha

Work:
Cami
Marco
Jorge
Christian
Rafa
Dopi
Ivan
Mayra
MC
Vero M.
Majito
Edson

Mexico is a big raincloud full of nice people. I want to hide!

leaving repressive mexico for three months. coming back different.

My new boss in Tel Aviv for summer told me today, "it's going to be hard, but you are going to have to get your creativity brain on when you come here."

This is like someone telling me, "now, you can shave your head and everyone will still love you." or, "go ahead, cook naked."
This is going to be the most liberating experience ever.

And the words of Steve Jobs suddenly come to life, suddenly shed their cáscara: "Avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. YOU ARE ALREADY NAKED. There is no reason not to follow your heart."

... And in my heart, Picasso talks: "I am always doing things I can't do. That is how I get to do them." So here I am, in my kitchen without real clothes on, hair up, thinking how in the heck am I going to decorate my new apartment. Make jokes in Hebrew to the Israeli bus drivers; ooo! Doodle through meetings. Be as weird and as beautiful as possible. Let go of the expectations of Mexico for a while. Find a totally new type of exhilarating.

I guess I've gone through this before. Patterns of restraint, release; restraint, release. I think I've found it. I think I've found release in this corporate cycle. Not the last one, but a damn important one. Some sort of 'me' ness is let out, like a little bird or mosquito in the wind, wings flapping.

Now if I can just add data science and changing the world, I'm freaking found.

Ok. To make it less overwhelming. Let me put it like this. For me, Mexico City is not a destination. It is a mirror of the past and the future of civilization. It's an intellectual explosion of what humanity itself comes from and is going towards. This is why I am excited about this city.

When you begin to unpeel the layers, you begin to time-travel in both directions at once, and there is so much to think about, and so many secrets.

As you begin to read these articles, you may begin to understand what I'm talking about. For me, Mexico City is Rome combined with Thailand. You have fat ladies with children strapped on their backs selling organic hand-smashed tlalpapas in-between traffic on four-story megahighways which bend around an old abandoned 16th-century church.

If I am a good curator, these articles (all of them) should serve the purpose of making your brain crawl. This brain crawliness is exactly what is most enjoyable about Mexico City. The purpose is not so much to show you tour guides(just accept that you cannot digest the geography of this city), but rather historical context for this place. Today, we are in a wild transformation point that reflects where development all around the world can and may move. This is where my enthusiasm comes from. Being overwhelmed is the drug in itself.

hat to read if you are excited

Its a wildly chaotic international overdeveloped 3rd world capital, but its also the fanciest gourmet playground full of jungle plants, palaces, infinite art galleries, museums, and more.

Ok.

My favorite topic EVER which makes me go into a hallucinogenic fit is this (sorry... I'd say I was exxagerating but it makes my skin crawl since this is like, unwrapping millennia in both past and future):

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/01/world/americas/01mexico.html

Things to do in my neighborhood

Bakeries tour - tiny pastry tasting

Art gallery crawl

Architecture (art nouveau, deco, palaces, mansions) tour

Tacos tour

Amazing tropical plants tour

Cool repurposed spaces tour

Vertical gardens tour

Vivid colors tour

Local/artesenal food goodies tour

Beautiful courtyards and painted allies tour

Nooks and Books tour

Wonderful chefs tour (1 small plate perhttp://highlife.ba.com/Destinations/Mexico-Citys-art-scene.html wonderful restaurant)

Community movements tour

What can you make with a cactus tour

We can do all these things in my neighborhood alone! And combine them. Maybe we can play bingo with your top 5 categories of interest while walking around drinking papaya juice.

AMAZING GREEN ECO MOVEMENT IN MEXICO CITY

MY NEIGHBORHOOD - APPARENTLY ALSO JACK KEROAK’S

MY NEIGHBORHOOD IS SOOOO FASHIONABLE

AHMAYGAAAHHHD WE ARE SOOO HIPPP

CONTEMPORARY ART SCENE IS POSH

ART ART ART

ART SCENE GOIN CRAY

COOL! ART HOUSE HIPSTER NEIGHBORHOOD! ART COLLECTIVES!

GET OVERWHELMED BY FOOD

STREET FOOD: “VITAMINA T” = TACOS, TORTAS, TAMALES

COYOACAN AKA FRIDA KAHLO TERRITORY

GQ’S STYLE GUIDE TO MEXICO CITY

Tour guides and portraits of the city

DOUBT BUSTERS

UP-TO-DATE CITY GUIDE :)

EXPERIMENTAL LIFE IN MEXICO CITY

REASONS TO GO TO MEXICO CITY

Interesting thought to consider MX: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/16/opinion/sunday/a-self-defined-by-place.html

Oh, do you like design and architecture? These are all AMAZING in my personal opinion...

The basics:

http://images.businessweek.com/ss/10/01/0125_mexico_city_hottest_buildings/

Social conversation:

http://www.archdaily.com/369951/aa-mexico-city-visiting-school/

Water house:

http://www.archdaily.com/316171/casa-del-agua-thinc/

Upcycling:

http://www.archdaily.com/296531/upcycling-pavilion-bnkr-arquitectura/

Smog eating tile:

http://exploring-and-observing-cities.org/2013/04/17/mexico-city-smog-eating-buildings-combine-fashion-and-function-in-architecture/

Vertical garden mania: (no good article on just mexico city but I'd say we have 30+):

http://www.buzzfeed.com/marcelle/39-insanely-cool-vertical-gardens?s=mobile

Oh good! Mexico city vertical gardens:

http://vivedeviaje.com.mx/2011/08/azoteas-verdes-para-la-ciudad-de-mexico-estado-de-anahuac-y-otros-suenos-postergados-carlos-lazaro/

Hotel Downtown:

http://www.archdaily.com/334269/downtown-cherem-arquitectos/

La Palma:

http://www.archdaily.com/293945/la-palma-miguel-angel-aragones/

Condesa DF:

http://www.archdaily.com/387186/condesa-df-js/

Mercado Roma:

http://www.archdaily.com/395571/mercado-roma-proposal-rojkind-arquitectos/

Mobile art library:

http://www.archdaily.com/319981/a47-mobile-art-library-productora/

Portal of awareness:

http://www.archdaily.com/290833/portal-of-awareness-rojkind-arquitectos/

Cool house:

http://www.archdaily.com/388780/casa-murray-diseno-espacial/

Cool apartments (green wall use):

http://www.archdaily.com/375004/casa-cormanca-paul-cremoux-studio/

The Willy Wonka of beer industry:

http://www.archdaily.com/387261/heineken-house-mexico-art-arquitectos/

Tea room:

http://www.archdaily.com/320477/celeste-champagne-tea-room-productora/

MexiArabia

I am the only woman in the Aeromexico lounge, which is full before the 6am flights. With all due respect to Persians and grandmothers, I feel like I am in Iran, or 1942.

It doesn't help that it is freezing and I feel invisible in my all-black business suit hidden by gigantic black pashmina. Under the capes instead of jewels and corsets, I have PowerPoint. Today Mexico is cold and dark. Thank goodness I land in the Caribbean in under two hours and have a full day ahead of important men listening to me. I am proud to be a subversive from the north.

2013 Year in Review

Exciting as all hell. Raw, inspired, growth. You have stunned me, 2013. You have made me feel like a 12 year old, freshly picked off some vine.

The world is grand and exposed. Tile in old colonial quarters... sour, tropical drinks. Hunger and angst and a shuffling of dreamscapes and the ocean on my feet! Biking through the smog and returning with the cinematic rhythm of falling in love with life, confused, just like an adolescent again.