It’s not often — actually, it hasn’t happened before — that I enjoy a book so much that I finish reading it and then immediately read it again. But there’s a first time for everything and the book, The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers, was well worth reading […]
From 37signals Signal vs. Noise blog: “Oh, that’s not my job,” is the sound of doom. Maybe not imminent doom, but doom indeed. It’s the magic inflection point when a company becomes too big (even if only psychologically) for any single employee to give a rat’s ass about job numero uno: Making shit work. The sentiment […]
According to the All About Microsoft blog, a Microsoft group might soon start preventing employees from buying Apple products on the companies dime. Microsoft’s Sales, Marketing, Services, IT, & Operations Group (SMSG) may be putting in place a policy to prevent employees from using corporate funds to buy Macs and iPads. Based on an alleged internal e-mail […]
Working remotely is certainly a challenge. It’s the ultimate “grass is greener” thought inducing situation. If done right though, it’s hard to beat. Jeff Atwood has some thoughts how to successfully work remotely for computer programmers: If this seems like a lot of jibba-jabba, well, that’s because remote development is hard. It takes discipline to make […]
Duncan Riley has been doing a good job of trying to help the online newspapers stop naughty Google from stealing their precious content. As Duncan and others have pointed out regularly, preventing Google from profiting from their news is quite simple, it’s called Robots.txt and it’ll stop Google and other search engines dead in their […]
Matthew Yglesias has been floating an intriguing idea about financial institutions: are they too big to be allowed to exist? It’s a good point because all of these bail outs are setting a risky precedent. Just like it was widely accepted that the US Government would come to the aid of Freddie Mae and Fannie […]
Andrew Sullivan on the financial crisis: The truth is: we had this coming. We deserve it. And we deserve leaders who are able to tell us that. Yeah, no. I’d like to see any leader in charge of a government try and tell the people that we deserve this and that we should just sit […]