Anne Truitt Zelenka is a web technologist, consultant, and writer who lives and works in Denver, Colorado. She is the author of Connect! A Guide to a New Way of Working.
Her writing and research explores the gaps and linkages across a mix of topics including social media, next-generation web tools, enterprise software development, behavioral economics, Western approaches to Buddhism, and virtual teams. Prior to launching this blog in late 2005, she was on hiatus from the workforce for five years. During that break, she dabbled in stay-at-home motherhood, rode the real estate bubble from Palo Alto to McLean to Maui, meditated inconsistently, and produced The Barely Attentive Mother, a now-defunct mommyblog.
Anne’s technology career v1.0 started in 1993 in Silicon Valley, when she convinced defense contractor Delfin Systems to hire her for a Unix programming job even though she didn’t have a computer science degree. She experienced the first Internet boom with box seats, at a small startup that went on to be acquired and later at database behemoth Oracle. Anne holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and philosophy and master’s degree in statistics from Stanford University. She learned to program at age 13 on her dad’s home computer and has been a computing enthusiast ever since.
Anne lives in Denver with her husband, three children, and dog.
Selected articles
How the web changes work
- Busyness vs. Burst: Why Corporate Web Workers Look Unproductive [Web Worker Daily]
- Web Work Shift: Valuing the Individual, the Authentic, the Emergent, the Open
- Workstreaming, the New Face Time [Web Worker Daily]
- 10 Things You Must Do to Succeed in the New Economy [Web Worker Daily]
Personal growth, connectedness, mindfulness, and success
- Climbing Mountains or Looking for Lakes
- Connected Mode: 10 Ways to Stay Productive with Online Work [Zen Habits]
- 5 Quick Ways to be More Mindful
- Your Life and Career as a Tree
Web technology perspectives
- Six Myths About Ajax [RedMonk]
- The Seven Cs of the Future of Software [GigaOM’s Future of Software]
- Making Money in the Mashup Economy [GigaOM]
- Web 2.0: Orbiting the Individual
- Why Open is Good, and How Open Could be Good for Flash [RedMonk]
