September 30, 2019

Good morning BOSLadies,

I’m looking forward to seeing you all next Tuesday, October 8th at 6:30pm at Available Light. If you didn’t receive a calendar invite, please let me know! Thank you in advance to Matt for opening up his office to us. I hope that everyone is enjoying Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity! If you aren’t enjoying it, don’t want to read it, don’t have time to read it, etc. please come to the meeting anyway!

Our three things this week are all reads, no mixed media.

Something developed to help explore and understand urban art: Wescover is an an “art discovery platform” that allows a user with Google Lens to aim their phone camera at a piece of artwork and then view information about the artist, their body of work and how to contact them. It started in San Francisco and has been launched for Los Angeles. How many times have you seen street art and wondered who did it and what it means? I’m personally very stoked about this and will definitely be testing it out next time I’m home. Fingers crossed it gets expanded to Boston!

Something about how women in remote areas get (or don’t get) birth control: One of the biggest sticking points from Melinda Gates’ book that we read a few months ago is that lack of birth control and sex education is significantly linked to poverty. Part of the mission of the Gates Foundation is to go into third world countries and provide birth control to women in places that otherwise would never have access to it. The idea is that giving women the ability to regulate the number of children they have also allows them to have some financial control over how many people they must pay to feed, educate, etc. This article is about women in Nepal who risk considerable danger to provide long-term contraception across the country to those who otherwise would never get it.

Something like book club but “a much easier commitment”: Lately I’m hearing stories of other attended book clubs, readings and other literary gatherings and am finding the variation absolutely fascinating. This article is a light read and I think captures things pretty well:

Until next time BOSLadies!