January 2012
2 posts
Hollywood Astroturf Group Releases Ad Saying It... →
wilwheaton:
CreativeAmerica, the astroturfing group that pretends it’s a “grassroots” operation — but which is funded by the major Hollywood studios and run by former studio/MPAA execs — is amazingly inept at communicating with the public, especially considering these guys are supposed to be communications experts. Remember, this is the same group who, while fighting for stronger laws against...
Here's a silly idea...
wilwheaton:
Maybe instead of using FUD to terrify Tumblr users into uninstalling Missing E, Tumblr could use that time and energy to give Tumblr users the functionality they installed Missing E to get in the first place.
What more needs to be said?
December 2011
2 posts
I picked this up from Algo actually :: End... →
kyle-burton:
It’s also why I leave stacks of 3x5 cards at every desk, cups full of pens at every desk (and in every conf room) and a heap of markers at every whiteboard. I can see it interrupt their flow when one of my devs has to stop and look around to find something to write with or on.
Now I have to get them the pick up the same habit…
This is also just one type of scarcity - Jon Tran...
November 2011
2 posts
“[Software a]rchitecture is often seen as a luxury or a frill, or the indulgent...”
– Big Ball of Mud
October 2011
6 posts
via Frank: Elegance, Lightness, and Nothing →
viafrank:
There’s an old story, true or not, that people love telling about writing implements in space. The American space program discovered that normal ink pens didn’t work on missions (no gravity in orbit to pull down the ink), so they spent millions to research and develop a pen that could write…
While I’m familiar with this story, having read it before, the original writer flat...
“One theme that recurs in these discussions is that many traditional processes...”
– mike.mainguy: Gorillarinas, Putting the agile skirt on a waterfall Gorilla
Another great quote from that post!
“If you’re working in a large organization and trying to “be...”
– mike.mainguy: Gorillarinas, Putting the agile skirt on a waterfall Gorilla
This is very, very familiar!
“Indeed, a recent article in the Wall Street Journal calculated that it typically...”
– 5 ways to keep your rockstar employees happy — Online Collaboration
September 2011
2 posts
“Facebook is what happens to the Web when you hit it with the stupid stick.”
– John Scalzi And Now, For No Particular Reason, a Rant About Facebook « Whatever
August 2011
3 posts
6 tags
July 2011
3 posts
Mapping Human Behaviors at Work →
stoweboyd:
Short piece from last year on work that Alexander Pentland is doing at MIT. One project maps how people interact at work:
Andy Greenberg, Mining Human Behavior At MIT
Pentland’s lab put sociometers on 80 employees at a Bank of America call center in Rhode Island. The inconspicuous badges used Bluetooth and infrared signals to measure which co-workers the test subjects talked to...
June 2011
6 posts
Sell the audience, not the story « BBH Labs →
Killer (meta)quote:
If you’re not paying for it, you’re not the customer, you’re the product being sold.
—blue_beetle (Metafilter forum user)
stepwise: Talent Exodus for the Rest of Us →
stepwise:
Young professionals want to work at Google, Disney, the State Department and Amazon, according to a recent survey.
Where does that leave the rest of companies? Probably in a catch-22, where they struggle to hold onto their most talented employees while facing a broader market shortage…
“But if you’ve really learned how to think, how to pay attention, then you will...”
– David Foster Wallace on Life and Work - WSJ.com (via kyle-burton)
“At every level of government…agencies are becoming desperate for money, and the...”
– WendyMcElroy.com: Student Loans and DOE S.W.A.T. Teams (via kyle-burton)
Jerry Brito: Top ten myths about introverts →
jerrybrito:
Myth #1 – Introverts don’t like to talk. This is not true. Introverts just don’t talk unless they have something to say. They hate small talk. Get an introvert talking about something they are interested in, and they won’t shut up for days.
Myth #2 – Introverts are shy. Shyness has nothing to…
May 2011
5 posts
“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever...”
– Mr Steve Jobs (via whereisthecoool)
“But when it came to discussing who should be our new leader, I pointed out that...”
– Scott Adams in the must-read How to Get a Real Education at College - WSJ.com (via Shawn Blanc)
The #1 Killer of Meetings (And What You Can Do... →
“From Ira Glass …
“What nobody tells people who are beginners — and I really...”
– Nobody tells this to beginners | Before & After | Design Talk (via ironfroggy)
“The more people we can see living their dreams and doing the impossible, the...”
– Do Something Impossible | Reading For Your Success
April 2011
8 posts
Yak Shaving - Joi Ito's Web →
“Yak shaving is the technical term for when you find yourself eight levels deep - and possibly in an recursive loop - in a stack of jobs.” The example they give is:
You start out deciding to tidy your room and you realize that in order to do that you’ll need some more trash bags, so you need to go to the shops, which will involve you getting out the car, but the car needs...
None the Wiser: Money Must Be Funny (in the Funny... →
taylorglenn:
In the space of a few days, the Funny Women Awards managed to create a furore amongst bothmale and female comics when they announced that for the first time, they would be charging a £15 entry fee to enter their annual competition.
Comics began furiously tweeting their objections to the…
Posting this in various places. This kind of thing really pisses me off.
“Employers much prefer that workers be fungible, rather than maximally...”
– Loper OS » Where Lisp Fails: at Turning People into Fungible Cogs. (via kyle-burton)
AT-AT for America: The Dream: An AT-AT for America →
atatforamerica:
NERDS OF AMERICA:
We were once a country that made things: giantmetal cars, Hoover Dams, non-AutoTuned popular music.
But now we are stuck in an economy in limbo, surrounded by our Internets, our hipsters and our arguing politicians.
Nerds, I have a great idea to make America great…
“One of the emergent principals…is that once the…team who wrote the software...”
– Coté’s People Over Process » The Developer Landgrab – Another Way to Look at Dev/Ops (via kyle-burton)
“If an American invites you for a meal or snack in a restaurant, s/he might...”
– Getting to Know Americans (via kyle-burton)
March 2011
4 posts
“The question I am often asked by friends, co-workers and pretty much anyone...”
– Me this morning after explaining some of the new vulnerabilities found for Windows to a friend. (via mnmal)
Monument{s,al} →
mentby.com →
The site description is a classic example of buzzword bingo:
mentby.com is a social media enabler aimed for unstructured user-generated content, providing a data source that is easily accessible from facebook, twitter, friendfeed, blog/profile widgets, RSS readers, etc.
Episode CLXXIII: Deconversion! : Pharyngula →
I disagree that the host is “hammering” on the call; it’s too negative a term. He is, however, compassionately deconstructing his argument. I really appreciate this approach.
February 2011
12 posts
Do fewer things. Do them better. →
Finer Things in Mac: Get a sliver of volume →
finermac:
Ever wish there was a notch of volume between zero and one? Simply press the “volume down” key until there are no dots showing, and then hit the “mute” key.
The volume icon will display sound again. Even though the volume measurement bar remains blank, you should be able to hear the faintest…
If you hold down Shift+Option at the same time as you hit a volume adjust key, it...
Email Etiquette for the Super-Busy :: Tips :: The... →
“If you don’t take the time to edit down what you are replying to, then yes, top...”
– Why I Am Switching to Interleaved Email Replies and Why You Should Too — The Brooks Review
“The fundamental source of poor email style is the practice of quoting the entire...”
– Daring Fireball: On Top
“I don’t like people demanding that I be available to them 24/7, when I only get...”
– An Email Rule I Would Love to Have — The Brooks Review
Product Management: You Get What You Pay For |... →