As she takes an honest look at her own liabilities, she takes a second peek at the geek, a third tour of the nerd.
Although many older executives have grasped the power of the Internet age, and steered their companies to exploit it, most of them speak geek as a second language, rather than as the native tongue of one who has learnt it when young.
Both started as interns in the San Antonio Spurs organization; it was Presti who, as a 24-year-old video geek, persuaded Coach Gregg Popovich to take a second look at a 19-year-old prospect named Tony Parker just before the 2001 draft.
Chipmakers have known for some time that merely cranking up the internal speed of their computational engines was delivering diminishing returns.Today, the co-ordinating internal clocks on some of the fastest chips beat at four billion times a second (4GHz in geek-speak).
For starters, rose balsams are incredibly fast germinators, sparking into life in trays on a warm windowsill within just a few days, giving future plant geeks a speedy reward for their first sowing efforts.
"They see you taking hundreds of pictures, and they think you're either a massive aviation geek or you're a first time traveller who's trying to document everything," he says.
Vienna-based Ulmon, founded by self-professed "travel geeks" first as a side project, has been described as Europe's largest travel startup you've never heard of, and for many of you reading this that's likely to be a fairly accurate assessment.
Drew is a geek who first worked at AOL when he was 16 years old.
"It's life-saving technology," he said with all the enthusiasm of a seventh-grade science geek.
A dazzling debut novel that unfolds from a comic portrait of a second-generation Dominican geek into an unnerving meditation on Dominican history and the relationship between political and personal dreams and losses.
