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Learning The Lessons of Nixon
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My Website and Me
I always like it when there’s a brief bio accompanying a blog, and after three years I thought it was time I got around to having a link to one on my sidebar. From now on the “about me” link on the right will link to this post.
My name is Lisa Williams. I was born Lisa Tomlinson in Norwood, Massachusetts, in 1970, the only child of two parents from working class families in Lowell and Lawrence who both had careers in the technology industry. As a kid I was very serious about school, which saved my parents some money when I was offered a scholarship to Emerson College.
After college I worked briefly at a regional daily newspaper, but found it tough to make a living and dispiriting to watch acrimonious School Committee meetings week after week. To make ends meet I had a variety of jobs including one carrying the bags for an executive recruiter who filled positions in high-tech and biotech, a night job as a backup tape-monkey in an IT department, and eventually moved from straight journalism to technology and business journalism, subjects that I grew up with and enjoyed. I always liked gadgets and hearing people talk about their jobs. I worked as an industry analyst at Daratech, where I wrote about computer-aided design technology used in things like making cars, aircraft, toys, and teapots. After three years at Daratech I moved to Yankee Group, where I became the director of their enterprise software research group.
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