Luke Wroblewski: About those vector icons… http://t.co/itwUcgmp .. a detailed read/

It’s hard to pick a single best work by Joel Spolsky, but if I was forced to, I’d pick The Joel Test . It’s his own, highly irresponsible, sloppy test to rate the quality of software, and when anyone asks me what is wrong with their team I usually start by pointing the questioner at the test. Start…

I recently spoke at Yahoo! about the book , and, for this presentation, I adapted the Agenda Detection and Meeting Creatures chapters into a piece about how I assess agendas and people in the first 10 minutes of any meeting. Early on in the presentation, I asked the audience, “What are the things…

Pixels pixels pixels. Battery battery battery. Speed speed speed. That’s the new iPad, a.k.a. (for comparison’s sake) the iPad 3. The retina display, significantly faster graphics, and the potential f

When Apple’s iPad event ended last week , I walked out of the venue, spoke to Phil Schiller for a couple of minutes and went into a meeting with Apple executives. That’s where I picked up my new iPad

Ok, I relent. Everyone wants to know why I left and answering individually isn’t scaling so here it is, laid out in its long form. Read a little (I get to the punch line in the 3 rd paragraph) or read it all. But a warning in advance: there is no drama here, no tell-all, no former colleagues bashed…

The Book of Revelation has all the elements of a Hollywood action movie. The Bible, as every Sunday-school student learns, has a Hollywood ending. Not a happy ending, certainly, but one where all the dramatic plot points left open earlier, to the whispered uncertainty of the audience (“I don’t get…

The GTD Approach to Linking Next Actions and Projects One of the most common questions about implementing GTD is how to link projects and next actions. The recommendation in Getting Things Done is tha

In the world of software development and operations, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and DevOps have emerged as dynamic allies, forming […] In an ever-advancing world, it was only a matter of time

I spoke at a conference near Cardiff recently and in Q&A, I got The Question. I love getting the question. What's the question? This: What's wrong with Android? I realised, giving my answer, that I've never written down my objections to Android. Before we get into this, let's understand that I'm…

I am told that the manner by which others understand that I am busy is when my writing coherence suffers. This primarily occurs in email when whole words are dropped, sentences become jumbled, and logic falls on the floor. Rands, I literally did not understand what you were asking in that email.…

quarterly growth in GDP With November’s election fast approaching, the Republican candidates seeking to challenge President Barack Obama claim that his policies have done nothing to support recovery from the recession that he inherited in January 2009. If anything, they claim, his fiscal stimulus…

At a previous job, the shared men’s bathroom for the floor was laid out like this: (Please excuse my drawing skills.) When we were done doing our business, this is the path we’d take: Many people don’