{"id":3232,"slug":"hicks-mar","name":"Hicks, Mar","type":"person","created_at":"2026-08-08T04:52:35.764957+00:00","hidden":0,"aliases":[],"episodes":[{"id":"1dfa4c26-363e-4e56-afef-de38a6c01b8e","slug":"s21e17-it-was-supposed-to-be-different-reading","subject":"s21e17: It Was Supposed To Be Different; Reading Material","title":"It Was Supposed To Be Different; Reading Material","publish_date":"2026-08-06T00:23:38+00:00","year":2026,"month":8,"season":21,"episode":17,"episode_label":"s21e17","canonical_url":"https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s21e17-it-was-supposed-to-be-different-reading/","is_premium":0,"word_count":1689,"context":" … How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing\n, by\n<mark>Mar Hicks</mark>\n\nCoders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World\n, by … ","reading_minutes":8},{"id":"2cb6a332-ab24-4fd5-9897-916f133cb956","slug":"s19e10-hallway-track-doge-efficiency-cobol-give","subject":"s19e10: Hallway Track; DOGE; Efficiency; COBOL; Give None of These Things; Context, Not News","title":"Hallway Track; DOGE; Efficiency; COBOL; Give None of These Things; Context, Not News","publish_date":"2025-05-28T17:41:58+00:00","year":2025,"month":5,"season":19,"episode":10,"episode_label":"s19e10","canonical_url":"https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s19e10-hallway-track-doge-efficiency-cobol-give/","is_premium":0,"word_count":2972,"context":" … We’ll have Marianne Belloti, <mark>Mar Hicks</mark>, and Clive Thompson talking about COBOL! Here’s the show blurb:\n\nThat computer system you hate that’s also really old … ","reading_minutes":15}]}