TechShe Sparks: Women Rocking Deep Tech

  Designing Tech That Thinks Before It Feels We talk a lot about empathy in design. About soft edges, human touchpoints, and emotional intelligence in UX. But here’s a bold counter-question: What if sometimes, what tech needs isn’t more feeling — but more function? In a digital world obsessed with “making things feel human,” we risk forgetting that logic is part of what makes us human, too. The capacity to structure, prioritise, and optimise systems — that’s not cold. It’s clarity. 🧩 The Power of Precision Systems built on logic don’t lack heart — they have discipline. Good systems don’t just respond to emotion; they anticipate it through intelligent structure. The best tech products — from scalable AI frameworks to simple productivity apps — rely on systems that self-correct and process complexity through order . This is where rational empathy comes in: the ability to care through clarity. It’s the designer who knows that reducing one unnecessary click saves frustration. It...

  We’ve built a world obsessed with precision. With metrics. With the clean, comforting illusion that logic will save us. But here’s the glitch: A system that ignores emotion is a system destined to fail. We talk about “optimisation” as if it’s the same thing as improvement. We measure engagement, but not empathy. We design for clarity, but not for care. Somewhere between the spreadsheet and the server room, we lost the plot — and the pulse. ⚙️ The Myth of the Perfect System Tech loves the myth of neutrality. Lines of code don’t discriminate, right? But every algorithm, every dashboard, every automated “solution” reflects the people who built it. And right now, those systems are built for logic — not for life. In our obsession with control, we’ve created ecosystems that can compute complexity, but can’t comprehend emotion. AI can mimic empathy, but it can’t feel it. UX can predict frustration, but not prevent burnout. When we strip emotion from systems, we strip away conte...

  There’s a glitch in the system — and it’s not just technical. It’s emotional. We live in an age where Gen Z de-stresses with baby pacifiers. Where scientists confirm parental favouritism. Where women with ADHD are told they’re just lazy. This isn’t just cultural noise. It’s emotional misinformation. And it’s costing women in tech more than we realise. 🧠 When Feelings Are Filtered Out In deep tech, we’re trained to optimise, automate, and abstract. But somewhere along the way, we started filtering out the human signal — the burnout, the bias, the brilliance that doesn’t shout. Women are still being told to “toughen up” in rooms they built. Still being overlooked for promotions because they “don’t speak up enough.” Still being gaslit by systems that weren’t designed with them in mind. And if you’ve ever felt like you had to code your emotions out of your CV , you’re not imagining it — You’re surviving it. ⚠️ Warning of Inaction If we don’t challenge this emotional erasu...

  Tech loves a clean answer. A metric to measure it. A dashboard to display it. But here’s the paradox: the more precise we become, the more blind we often are. In a world run by algorithms, optimisation, and “move fast and automate everything” culture, logic has become our religion — and data our deity. Yet, for all its power, logic alone keeps leading us into the same messy human problems: bias, burnout, and systems that look efficient but feel empty. It’s time we asked the forbidden question: What if the problem with tech isn’t that it’s irrational — but that it’s too rational ? ⚙️ The Cult of Calculation The modern tech industry runs on precision. We A/B test empathy. We quantify attention. We chase “engagement” as if the human mind were a spreadsheet cell waiting to be optimised. It’s elegant, sure. But it’s also deeply fragile. Because life doesn’t obey linear equations. And neither do people. When every decision is filtered through the logic of efficiency, ethics bec...