Blitzscaling 06: Jennifer Pahlka on Founding Code For America and Starting the US Digital Service

[@DanMcB1]

Absolutely amazing this is here for free.

[@JarradHope]

Watch the speakers TED talk first (12mins) www.ted.com/talks/jennifer_pahlka_coding_a_better_government Then start around 00:20:30, the talk gets a little more on track from that point.

[@TrollMeister_]

She takes care of her skin ..and overall health.

[@kevins7621]

She is a very pretty woman.

[@jjjttt31]

Who cares? She's interesting that's what important here. Didn't see comments on prettiness on the previous (male) guests...If weŕe staying on the fluff, I find the guy eating IN THE FIRST ROW very annoying...

[@alainportant6412]

Who cares ? We care. She's beautiful. No one wants to watch an obese feminist with dyed hair and unshaven armpits talk for three hours.

[@MANMETR]

@@alainportant6412 hahahaha

[@irenejenna5725]

@@alainportant6412 Elizabeth Holmes was beautiful too lol

[@alainportant6412]

​@@irenejenna5725 I guess Holmes could pass for attractive in the club, she's still young girl, rather tall, blond hair is pretty popular, but she's not academically beautiful. Like, you wouldn't study her facial features in a classical art course of sculpture, for instance. Her face is rather puffy which gives her a goofy look. That's facial fat not being evenly allocated because of "not so good" metabolism and weak facial bone structure caused by "not so good" genetics. The "protuberant eyes" effect is also a consequence of that. On the other hand, this Jennifer Pahlka person has strong facial bone structure : great jawline definition and cheekbones, due to very good genetics. I could stare at Jennifer for hours, because she is much more pleasant to watch ( even though she's easily 15 years older than Holmes ) . This strong facial bone thing is considered universal beauty standard for both men and women because from an evolutionary perspective, having a strong facial bone structure subconsciously signals that other humans ( or animals ) couldn't poke your protuberant eyes out, or knock you out with a single punch back when we lived in nature, so your offspring had better chances of survival. So, humans ended up looking for that trait aka "finding it attractive", just like men are attracted to breasts ( which sound dumb ) because it subconsciously signals fertility and better chances of reproduction. In conclusion, there is no question Jennifer's male kids or ( male version in an alternate universe ) would be attractive, and she is still going to be attractive when she gets older ( to a point ). I wouldn't make the same statements about Elisabeth Holmes.