Notes"I donât know what the hell this remote person is doing, so Iâm going to assume heâs stumbling around the house in his underwear." Been there, done that, still closed bugs and checked in code.Unfurl
Notes"As it has been mentioned before on this blog and will continue to be addressed, the single greatest hindrance for the remote revolution is simply tradition. With an influx of highly skilled information-ready workers who can present a compelling case for telecommuting, resistance will become increasingly difficult."Unfurl
Notes"If you want to be good at something, you have to to be obsessive. You have to do the thing all the time, and when youâre not doing it, you have to be thinking about doing it. Why do you think business people who make millions are so good at it? Theyâre always doing business. Even when theyâre not working, theyâre thinking about better ways to do business. Same with the greatest writers and painters. They obsess all the time. Ruby, if you want to be good at writing, you need to be obsessive about it."FeedEmbedUnfurl
NotesThinking I'd have sentiments similar to this after a year working for the lizard. "The Mozilla firehose takes a while to absorb, but finally it dawns on you that this place is really really different from other companies, and in a very good way. John Lilly was calling it âchaordâ which is an excellent description - pushing control and responsibility out to the edges. In some ways it reminds me of academia, with regard to both the autonomy we have and the rigor in the way we do things, in other ways the organic anarchy of many other Open Source projects."Unfurl
Notes"four Ann Arbor companies take a similar approach to how their workspaces are unconventionally arranged. SRT Solutions, Google Ad Words, Dynamic Edge, and Menlo Innovations â all leading companies in software development and technology consulting â are kicking down the proverbial walls, and opening up their work spaces to encourage productivity, creativity, and above all, interaction and open, free-form collaboration amongs their employees."Unfurl
Notes"four Ann Arbor companies take a similar approach to how their workspaces are unconventionally arranged. SRT Solutions, Google Ad Words, Dynamic Edge, and Menlo Innovations â all leading companies in software development and technology consulting â are kicking down the proverbial walls, and opening up their work spaces to encourage productivity, creativity, and above all, interaction and open, free-form collaboration amongs their employees."Unfurl
Notes"But many of our young people soon return to their friends, their family and their home state. After all, in Michigan, the quality of life is high while the cost of living is low."Unfurl
Notes"The Takeover is an audio drama that covers the merger between a web design company and Zombinc, a premier staffing service. Only, zombies run Zombinc, which causes for some workplace stress."Unfurl
Notes"But being tied to the house isn't the antidote for being tied to the office, which is why coworking â working together, but separately â is gaining momentum in Ann Arbor and around the world."Unfurl
Notes"Now, youâre not an actor. Youâre not a movie director. But youâre more than capable of creating creative, compelling, âauthenticâ content, because you are a creative, compelling, authentic individual. Be confident in your abilities. I have absoUnfurl
Notes"When you see software which shows great attention to detail, keep in mind that some poor sleep-deprived geek spent weeks refining those details, even though they'd rather be playing Rock Band."Unfurl
Notes"AntiRSI is a program for Mac OS X that helps prevent RSI (repetitive strain injury) and other computer related stress. It does so by forcing you to take regular breaks, yet without getting in the way"Unfurl
Notes"I don't know the actual true number, but I think a dedicated artist could cultivate 1,000 True Fans, and by their direct support using new technology, make an honest living. I'd love to hear from anyone who might have settled on such a path."Unfurl
Notes"So a generalist pays the rent, in the end, by having a reputation (social capital) and a wide-ranging interest (intellectual capital) and trading those for money."FeedUnfurl
Notes"We should expect to learn. Sophisticated tools require study and effort, and they repay that effort by letting us do things we could not do otherwise"Unfurl
Notes"Where's my gun? I know I own one somewhere... Even if it's a toy gun, at least I can disassemble it and choke on the small internal parts."Unfurl
Notes"If you refuse to recognize its importance, if you think of people issues as minor annoyances towards a glory of a newly minted era of freedom midwifed by connectivity, your project will fail under load."Unfurl
Notes"I felt that by living in Detroit, I was working harder than I would in other cities to connect with people who understood the sorts of projects that I love to build, and that it was really hard to find audiences and collaborators for, well, most things iUnfurl
Notes"This is my attempt to communicate some of the previously tacit knowledge on the benefits and consequences of common practices for daily stand-ups"Unfurl
Notes"A friend emailed and told me to come check out an open house for the Hat Factory, a Coworking community space in San Franciscoâs semi-industrial Dogpatch neighborhood"Unfurl
Notes"Just as some people are obsessed with money and are willing to do boring things day in and day out to be wealthy, Iâm obsessed with always being in a state of wonder."Unfurl
Notes'Amazon Mechanical Turk provides a web services API for computers to integrate "artificial, artificial intelligence" directly into their processing by making requests of humans.'Unfurl
Notes"If living in a state of continuous partial attention is the permanent new reality, letâs engineer our interruptions to be subtle, natural, and pleasing to the senses."Unfurl
Notes"I worked with this amazing software engineer who did about 5x more programming work in quality and quantity than the brightest guy in the company."Unfurl
Notes'...if someone questions a "hole" in my resume, anyone who wouldn't accept "I decided I had enough of them make me miserable" isn't someone I want to work for, anyway.'Unfurl
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