Interesting Links for July 29, 2011
July 29, 2011, 4:01 amHow Far Can You Push Apple Store Geniuses Before You Get Kicked Out? Pretty Far. [Humor] | Cult of Mac Solve Media Is CAPTCHA-ing 620K Type-In Ads A Day | TechCrunch Around The World and Back Again: Violated: A traveler’s lost faith, a difficult lesson learned 34 Life Lessons I’ve Learned in 34 years of [...]
Interesting Links for July 26, 2011
July 26, 2011, 4:01 amConfronting stupid Some gigs are process oriented: Set up a process correctly and the rest takes care of itself. It’s challenging and frightening to get it right, but after that, you merely have to do the hard work of… A definition of a leader… Leaders lead. Is that too simple? Writers write. If you want to be [...]
Interesting Links for July 22, 2011
July 22, 2011, 4:00 amUsing a MacBook Air for Web Development With MacBook Air refreshes seeming to be imminent, Jonathan Christopher reviews his, which is the late 2010 model. Jonathan has owned 4 Macs to date: the black MacBook, an aluminum Core 2 Duo MacBook … This Email Got One Stanford Student A Huge Job At Foursquare Probleme lösen: Einfach [...]
Interesting Links for July 19, 2011
July 19, 2011, 4:10 am★ Doesn’t Sound ‘Sober’ to Me Demetrius Mandzych, writing for the fresh-out-of-hibernation Byte, “A Sobering Look at Apple”: In all honesty, I don’t know why people buy products from Apple. Apple assures everyone their… Tom’s Phone It is amazing how quickly we adapt. My brother and his family came out for my daughter’s high school graduation in [...]
Interesting Links for July 15, 2011
July 15, 2011, 4:00 amRaspberry Pi: Rise of the $25 computer – CSMonitor.com Is Talent a Myth? Advertise here with BSACredit: Sharon Mollerus on Flickr For as much as it seems that talent is a real driving force that allows people to excel at certain things I am equally convinced that it is… Time for a workflow audit Go find a [...]
Interesting Links for July 12, 2011
July 12, 2011, 4:01 amRFPs: The Least Creative Way to Hire People If you work in any kind of service industry you’ve undoubtedly come across the Request For Proposal, or “RFP.” The RFP process has become a standard by which organizations solicit competitive bids.… A Modest Proposal Comedy is easy, proposals are hard. Even the toughest creative pros cringe when it’s [...]
Interesting Links for July 8, 2011
July 8, 2011, 4:01 amDangerous (in a good way) A path on the way to building a reputation: When someone asks you a question, they get an answer bigger than they ever expected. When someone gives you a project, they get a plan scarier than… Excuses are easy to find (but worthless) Even good excuses, really good ones, don’t help very [...]
Interesting Links for July 5, 2011
July 5, 2011, 4:02 amWriting naked (nakeder than Orwell) Here are Orwell’s rules, edited: 1. Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. You don’t need cliches. 2. Never use a long word where a short one … Shyama Golden Tell us about your background. Where are you from and how [...]
Interesting Links for July 1, 2011
July 1, 2011, 4:00 amMore Efficient Emails When working with businesses, one problem I see over and over again is people who don’t know how to write an efficient email. For example, I was helping a business put processes into place to… Mob Rules: Steh früh auf, damit Du nicht im Pyjama stirbst Produktive Gangster halten sich an strenge Regeln. Einige [...]
