Interesting Links for March 29, 2011
March 29, 2011, 4:00 amAre you doing a good job? One way to approach your work: “I come in on time, even a little early. I do what the boss asks, a bit faster than she expects. I stay on time and on budget, and I’m hardworking and loyal.” The… The Thank You Economy I often play videos of conference talks [...]
Links of Interest — March 25, 2011
March 25, 2011, 5:00 amAs Phones Become Mobile Wallets The cellphone has been more than a cellphone for years, but soon it could take on an entirely new role — standing in for all of the credit and debit cards crammed into wallets. Hi My Name is John… …and I am addicted to analytics. It all started when I was [...]
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March 24, 2011, 2:24 pmA few days ago, Leo Babauta wrote an article describing how inspiring surrounding yourself with passionate people can be. The people I talked with last night are incredibly passionate about what they’re doing. And yes, Brett, I mean passionate: excited, fired-up, feeling-strongly-about, thinking-about-it-all-the-time, can’t-wait-to-do-it-when-you-wake-up passion. When you talk with people who are passionate like that, [...]
Links of Interest — March 22, 2011
March 22, 2011, 5:02 amBring me stuff that’s dead, please RSS is dead. Blogs are dead. The web is dead. Good. Dead means that they are no longer interesting to the drive-by technorati. Dead means that the curiousity factor has been satisfied, that people… xkcd: Time Management Seed vs production data It’s generally better to build a good seed dataset than [...]
Links of Interest — March 18, 2011
March 18, 2011, 5:00 am52 Cups of Coffee • Cup 9 Famous to the family The way my family plays 20 Questions is that one person silently chooses a famous person and then everyone in the car has 20 yes or no questions to figure out who it is. A variation that was briefly … Challenges of Raising a Digital [...]
Links of Interest — March 15, 2011
March 15, 2011, 5:00 amArbeitszeit: Schluss mit der Präsenzkultur! | Karriere | ZEIT ONLINE R.I.P. Tweetie There has been a lot of debate about the newly released update for Twitter for iPhone. I personally switched a long time ago to Friends (I am biased, of course), but I tried out the update to see… ✚ A Quick Way to Get [...]
Links of Interest — March 8, 2011
March 8, 2011, 5:00 amApple’s ‘Post-PC’ World Josh Topolsky: It won’t be a debate about displays, memory, wireless options — it will be a debate about the quality of the experience. Apple is not just eschewing the spec conversation in favor… isolani – Web Standards: Microsoft’s anti-IE6 rhetoric Monk Mind: How to Increase Your Focus Post written by Leo Babauta. I [...]
Links of Interest — March 4, 2011
March 4, 2011, 5:01 am★ Dirty Percent It’s not hard to make the case that Apple’s new in-app subscription system offers numerous benefits to users, developers, and publishers. But whatever those benefits, they stem from the mere… Jason Santa Maria How did you get started on this path after you finished your undergrad? Wow, I don’t even know anymore, there are [...]
Links of Interest — March 1, 2011
March 1, 2011, 5:00 amMaking Money | Small Business Advice from Jason Fried of Inc.com Collaboration vs negotiation This is a followup to my post “Less wrong” Companies with a “negotiation instead of collaboration” culture end up wasting tons of time and still failing. The typical biz attitude is that when a … Less wrong This has probably been said elsewhere. [...]
