Christina Wallace: How to stop swiping and find your person on dating apps
Christina Wallace: Como passar dos contactos "online" para o encontro com a pessoa ideal
A self-described "human Venn diagram," Christina Wallace has crafted a career at the intersection of business, the arts and technology. Full bio
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pela primeira vez
my freshman year of college,
in case you can't see my wrinkle.
ver as minhas rugas.
tenho 1,82 m de altura.
I'm six-feet tall,
á universidade que escolhi
da Divisão III mediam, em média, 1,72 m,
basketball team averaged five-foot-eight,
e fui para a Internet.
scene and went online.
was pretty close to the plot
do "You've Got Mail."
back and forth for weeks,
durante semanas,
nos encontrarmos na vida real.
you'd realize you have no chemistry
se percebesse que não havia química,
tenha mudado muito nos últimos 17 anos,
has changed a lot in the last 17 years,
mantêm-se as mesmas.
sociais e profissionais que já temos.
and professional circles.
e por teatro, virada para a ação,
math and theater nerd,
I tend to take a step back,
dou um passo atrás,
de gestão para resolver a situação.
to figure out why, and to fix it.
I took myself on a relationship off-site.
envolvi-me numa relação no exterior.
no Maine durante uma semana,
in Maine for a week,
of mediocre relationships.
de relações medíocres.
I knew what I wanted in a partner.
a sense of purpose.
um sentimento quanto a objetivos.
com 1,82 m ou mais,
de metro de mim.
prioritized those things,
prioridade a essas coisas,
de procurar "online".
pareciam ótimos no papel
looked great on paper
na primavera de 2016,
in the spring of 2016,
through some classic business tools.
algumas ferramentas comerciais clássicas.
the gamification of swipe-based apps.
de "sim" ou "não" na fotografia.
a writing sample.
uma amostra de escrita.
sobre a pessoa,
that would qualify a lead.
que qualificariam uma vantagem.
tinha que ter três coisas:
and with good grammar;
e com boa gramática;
coisa do meu perfil,
something in my profile,
uma situação de copiar e colar;
a copy-and-paste situation;
qualquer conteúdo sexual.
fasquia muito baixa
das 210 mensagens que recebi.
of my 210 inbound messages,
as quickly as possible,
o mais depressa possível,
não as podia ver "online".
I couldn't see online.
with someone to tell if you click.
com alguém para sentir se há um clique.
a uma pergunta:
dinner with this person?
three hours across the table
de passar três horas
tem um compromisso
uma conferência com a China —
a conference call with China --
agendamos um primeiro encontro.
you schedule a first date.
you downshift into entertainer mode
para o modo de entretenimento
for your next networking event.
para o evento seguinte de relações.
you can squeeze up to three in one evening
podemos espremer três numa só noite
e escolher uma roupa bonita, por semana.
and pick out one great outfit a week.
a hipótese de ver como eles reagiam
to see how they responded
would dig my moxie, and I was right.
corresponderiam e tinha razão.
apenas 15 responderam à minha mensagem,
only 15 replied to my message,
um encontro zero.
foi com um cenógrafo.
was with a set designer.
with peanut butter,
it wasn't going to be a thing
vi que não ia dar em nada
a jantar com ele.
spending dinner with him.
por ir ao meu encontro zero seguinte.
about going to my next zero date.
on the Brooklyn Heights Promenade
ir ao Brooklyn Heights Promenade
para ver o pôr-do-sol.
to watch the sunset,
from my apartment.
do meu apartamento.
I have a podcast,
e eu tinha um "podcast".
falar sobre os nossos "podcasts".
we can talk about our podcasts.
and asked even better questions.
e fez perguntas ainda melhores.
and his eyes twinkled when he laughed
e os olhos brilhavam-lhe quando ria
quando eu o beijei.
our zero date became a first date.
um primeiro encontro.
dryer and two house plants together.
tínhamos uma máquina de lavar,
de interior, juntos.
you're going to end up with house plants.
com plantas de interior.
doesn't have to suck.
não têm que ser uma seca.
and don't treat it like a resume review.
a análise de um currículo.
and qualify leads
e classificar vantagens
as possible with the zero date.
o mais depressa possível
a manter contactos,
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Christina Wallace - Entrepreneur, podcaster, storytellerA self-described "human Venn diagram," Christina Wallace has crafted a career at the intersection of business, the arts and technology.
Why you should listen
Christina Wallace is currently the VP of Growth at Bionic, co-host of The Limit Does Not Exist podcast and co-author of upcoming business book New-to-Big, which will be published by Currency (Penguin Random House) in Spring 2019.
Wallace previously founded fashion company Quincy and ed-tech startup BridgeUp: STEM inside the American Museum of Natural History, and she opened the New York office for Startup Institute. Mashable named her one of "44 Female Founders to Know" and Refinery29 declared her one of the "Most Powerful Women in NYC Tech."
In her free time, Wallace sings in a community choir, climbs mountains, runs half (and some full) marathons and volunteers for progressive political causes. She lives with her fiancé and their two houseplants in Brooklyn, New York.
Watch Wallace's TEDxSanAntonio 2016 talk here.
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