When I started my career in tech over 15 years ago, I felt like I signed up to be a cog in a machine. The offices were drab, the stress often overwhelming, the competition fierce, the workplace predominantly masculine. Day after day, I’d sit at my desk, working on code, feeling a great disconnect from myself and the world around me. Being in this type of environment was challenging for me.
But then I discovered something amazing. I realized that I could bring my spiritual practice into my coding work! Through the practice of mindfulness, presence and connecting to a silent and vast creative power I also connected to a feminine essence that I could explore and deepen in this male-dominated career.
It wasn’t easy at first, and I started small. My morning tea became a ritual to set my intentions for the day. I kept my desk uncluttered but I put a small plant on it to remind me of nature and growth. I remember the day I truly grasped Object Oriented Programming – suddenly, I could model anything in the world, concept or physical object, in code. It was like seeing the Matrix, the underlying structure of reality. With each variable and algorithm, I was now bringing the unseen into form. I was applying my spiritual discipline to problem-solving – with my intention and mind sharpened by years of meditation, my workspace and my computer transformed into a personal sanctuary, and it was no longer a soulless job.
Throughout the years, I’ve witnessed first hand that women coders bring something special to tech. As I practiced putting intentional spiritual awareness into my coding flow, I noticed a transformation. My work became more than just productivity – it evolved into an art form born in creativity and stillness. This personal journey led me to a broader realization: I began to see our work as women in tech as something far more profound than just programming. For women, our ability to merge the material and immaterial realms can plant seeds of regeneration. Our integrated presence in this field allows us to develop a holistic awareness that goes beyond mere functionality – with this awareness software design becomes an expression of manifesting from the unseen; debugging becomes a quest; we collectively re-dream a reality in code. We, as women in tech, have the power to recode these silicon valleys into spiritual sanctuaries.
The overall aim of this approach to our work in tech is to reframe women’s ability to synthesize the material and immaterial realms as a strength that can elevate and bring more soul into tech fields. As we remember our own essence, we begin to see the cosmos our cubicles contain. With our integrated mastery as women in tech, and by embracing our feminine nature and feminine wisdom in the world of silicon, we’re not just coding software – we’re re-programming the future of humanity.
