Pace Smith is a technical, communication, and self-improvement geek. She is a co-owner of the Usual Error Project, where she writes books and presents workshops that teach interpersonal communication. She blogs at PaceAndKyeli.com.
She holds a B.S. in Logic and Computation from Carnegie Mellon University and a double major in Computer Science. She graduated in 1999, worked in the software industry (artificial intelligence) for about a decade, then quit her job to focus on the Usual Error Project.
She is transsexual, bisexual, and married to Kyeli Smith. They have a 10-year-old son, Dru. The three of them live in Austin, Texas with far too many cats.
Pace on the web
Pace is a co-presenter of the Usual Error Project series of workshops on communication and problem solving for a better life.
Pace @ PaceAndKyeli.com
Pace is a co-blogger at PaceAndKyeli.com, where she blogs about communication, ethical entrepreneurship, and how to be awesome.
Pace @ Gaia
Pace is a member of Gaia, a great place for socially conscious people to connect and help change the world!
Books Pace has enjoyed recently
The Paradigm Conspiracy: Why Our Social Systems Violate Human Potential -- And How We Can Change Them
Amazon Price: $15.61 (as of 01/08/2009) 
The Big Moo: Stop Trying to Be Perfect and Start Being Remarkable
Amazon Price: $13.57 (as of 01/08/2009)
The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower, Book 7)
Amazon Price: $9.99 (as of 01/08/2009)
Frogs into Princes: Neuro Linguistic Programming
Amazon Price: (as of 01/08/2009)
Pace and Kyeli's blog. Pace's and Kyeli's blog? The blog of Pace and Kyeli?
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(psst! she thinks it's bullshit!)
I'm proud of my life, I'm proud of my values, and I'm proud of the way my values are reflected in the way I live my life. I'm proud of what I do for a living, and I'm proud of the way my values are reflected in the way we do business. See how these things are related? I want to cut past all the layers of "image", "making a good impression", and "saving face" in the business world. It's all bullshit! The real me is good enough; I don't need a "professional image" to hide behind. I just want to be me, openly and honestly, and let that speak for itself.
Pace's recent bookmarks
Pace's academic publications
- Guiding Inference with Policy Search Reinforcement Learning
In press; in Proceedings of the Twentieth International FLAIRS Conference, Key West, FL, May 2007.
Matthew E. Taylor, C. Matuszek, P. Reagan Smith, M. Witbrock. - First-Orderized ResearchCyc: Expressivity and Efficiency in a Common-Sense Ontology
In Papers from the AAAI Workshop on Contexts and Ontologies: Theory, Practice and Applications. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 2005.
Deepak Ramachandran, P. Reagan, K. Goolsbey. - Representing Knowledge Gaps Effectively
In D. Karagiannis, U. Reimer (Eds.): Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management, Proceedings of PAKM 2004, Vienna, Austria, December 2-3, 2004, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg.
Alan Belasco, J. Curtis, RC Kahlert, C. Klein, C. Mayans, P. Reagan.
Leave a comment for Pace!
I'd love to hear your opinion on the books I've read recently, or anything else you have to say. (:
Lori wrote
Hi Pace!
This is Lori from Triiibes. I just was listening to Naomi at IttyBiz's video on "Why We're Broke" and was delighted to hear her talk about you and Kyeli. It was wonderful publicity for your services. Your "Usual Errors" site looks great right now.
Take care!
Lori
Posted November 09, 2008
RCA wrote
I stumbled across your blog, paceandkyeli.com, and was fascinated by your story(ies). I can't wait to see your book.
Something you said above resonated with me. You said, "That sort of thinking leads to separating one's business ethics from one's personal ethics..." I would contend that ethics can't be classified into gradients of appropriateness like that.
A Harvard Review article a few years ago was titled, "There is No Such Thing as Business Ethics." The point of the article was that ethics has no boundaries and no "appropriateness." Ethics are static and can not be turned on or off, can not be morphed to suit a purpose, and do not allow one to choose their applicability.
This proposition was a breath of fresh air for me as it not only flew in the face of conventional "wisdom" and pop culture, but it also affirmed my own beliefs about ethics.
No room here to elaborate. If interested:
http://thehillcountryview.blogspot.com/2007/12/maleability-of-ethics.html
Posted September 17, 2008
