At tonight's Glamour Women of the Year Awards , Goldie Hawn presented Reese Witherspoon with an award for her work creating stronger roles for women in film. The superstar's speech was so inspiring an
7th July 2017 My answer to How to kumbaya with the remote team? on Ask MetaFilter Here’s a low-tech, high-impact trick I recently learned at work that’s amazingly useful: create a doc-of-docs. This is
Ben Thompson writes a reasonable-sounding yet largely wrong defence of the proposal to reclassify ISPs under Title I instead of Title II, beginning with a smart debunking of that Portuguese cellular p
As a company, Meetup has long embraced its position as a small, mission-driven operation. While other social software companies from the Web 2.0 era, such as Facebook and LinkedIn, focused on keeping
Why Agile Isn’t Working and What We Do Differently UPDATE: We’ve written an entire book on this topic! Read it online: Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work That Matters . Agile started off
Pacific Press/Getty Images Feedback is crucial for learning and improving, but it’s rarely fun to be on the receiving end of it when it’s critical. Many people have a negative reaction to feedback, es
AllVoices Follow Nov 14, 2017 · 3 min read I grew up in a family of leaders who fought hard to give people a voice. My father is a legal aid lawyer who spent his career fighting for the rights of migr
Many managers say flat-out that their biggest frustration is when employees are not prepared for a one-on-one meeting. Yikes, really? Over the past four years, I’ve heard countless of managers, CEOs,
Technical interviews are garbage. Here’s what we do instead Farhan Thawar Oct 20, 2017 At Xtreme Labs, Farhan hired 1,000 people over four years. Technical interviews are a fantastic tool … if you want to hire candidates that are great at interviewing. But if you want people who are good at the job?…
From OSCON 2015 in Portland: Re-architecting a system is wrought with problems: - We almost always underestimate the difficulty of said task - We almost never completely understand our customers’ need
Brenda Atchison’s home in the Boston suburb of Roxbury has been in her family since 1946, and she’s lived there for nearly her entire life. At 66 years old, she’s an empty nester–she describes her hou
Image: A chinstrap for children, designed by Moritz Schreber. Illustration from: D.G.M. Schreber: Calligraphy. Leipzig, 1858 ____ On Facebook, I posted a brief note about starting to learn what is pai
When I started my first job at Amazon.com, as the first analyst in the strategic planning department, I inherited the work of producing the Analytics Package. I capitalize the term because it was both
For most of the last 4 years, I've been trying to wrap my head around how Defra builds services that meet user needs and support the outcomes Defra exists to bring about - benefits for the environment
I heard this joke on a tour of an old Oakland theater: The guide was talking about how, after a renovation, workers carried a bulky, antique couch up two flights of stairs. "They said it used to take
Krista Tippett, host: Underpinning all the great challenges of our time there is the human drama, the human condition. I find myself gravitating towards people who help us understand the puzzle of bei
A year ago I said goodbye to my trusty MacBook Pro and started working exclusively on an iPad + Linode 512. It was an experiment at first - one that I never thought would last. Twelve months later and
I watched Blade Runner for the first time this week. Since I have apparently been living in a cave for the past few decades, I thought that Blade Runner was kind of like Tron but with more Harrison Fo
I just got back from three days in Portland, Maine for Monktoberfest 2017. This year my founding partner Stephen put together a conference designed to inspire people to action. We can’t leave it up to
‘Blade Runner 2049’: Harrison Ford, Ryan Gosling and the Creators Discuss the Sequel Ana de Armas, left, and Ryan Gosling in “Blade Runner 2049,” a sequel to the 1982 science-fiction classic. Credit..
Organisations working in disparate domains are independently discovering patterns for building software that look the same. These systems are more robust, more resilient, more flexible and better posi
May 31, 2017 Clojure 1.9 has introduced a novel library, clojure.spec , which allows developers to parse and validate data using a predicative API which is just composed of Clojure functions. If there
Posted July 27, 2017 “Got crack all in my drawers, I’m just honest.” – Future, Honest Are you an honest person? I’ll bet that you answered “yes.” If you did, who else do you know that’s completely hon
“The future of work” is suddenly everywhere—which is an interesting feat for a 500-year-old discussion. Since the beginning of 2016, the topic has been featured in marketing campaigns by Walmart and G
My job at Fog Creek came to an end about two weeks ago. It was time. The first 3 ½ years I worked at Fog Creek, I was a receptionist. Working there was really fun; the company was intimate, close knit and full of characters. Our boss, Michael, now the CEO of Trello, ran most of the day to day. He…
Next term the Supreme Court will hear a challenge to Wisconsin’s election maps that could lead to a precedent-setting ruling against partisan gerrymandering — the problematic process whereby incumbents draw legislative boundaries to help their fellow partisans. But would politically neutral…
In the beginning, there was the pure, innocent love of the craft. Hands on a motherboard, fingers on a keyboard, you marveled at your budding power of creation. Your ability to conjure something that
Published in Amy Poehler's Smart Girls · 10 min read · Jun 30, 2017 -- Here I am wearing a bejeweled shirt and holding a card under the table for a magic trick I wanted to do. I am a very private pers
Home Blog About Monday. May 29, 2017 - 4 mins event-sourcing microservices For the last two years my team has been working in the development of a distributed services platform for a major US-based ba
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Avik Roy has a request: I’m very open to thoughtful critiques of the Senate bill from the lef
I don’t even need an outline to write this chapter. Of all the topics I talk about, this is perhaps one of the most exhausted; continually asked about, questioned, and evaluated. I’ve talked about thi
For my whole life, people have commented on my ability to get things done. I am a productive person, constantly tackling projects and tasks and using my time and my energy to produce results. But ther
Three years ago our remote company joined Slack. Until then, we had relied on a mix of email and an internal tool called Wedoist for all of our communication. But our steadily growing team based acros
Etsy Lessons Originally posted Jun 16, 2017 During my four and a half years at Etsy, I learned a ton, from a ton of people. Honestly, the lessons are innumerable, and I’m forever indebted to this crew
Everyone says, “It’s great working here.” But is it really? “How do you know if a company’s culture is good?” Last week, a friend who’s looking for a new job asked me this. She’d been doing a few inte
Who Really Matters ( Amazon , Goodreads , Powells ) by Art Kleiner is one of those books I wish I’d read much earlier in my career. Had I learned the aspect of organizational power dynamics the book e
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