Recently I came across a brief statement on Facebook about the well-explained evils of stack ranking, with a half-hearted Devil’s Advocate argument about how impact can absolutely be an objective metric, measured and ranked[...
Raise your hand if you’ve ever received mysterious emails or LinkedIn messages that resemble this: We’re looking for awesome [engineers / designers / product managers] to join our totally awesome team in [major tech hub]...
I was visiting a friend of mine who leads a software team at Tesla. He casually mentioned that, in their industry, manual QA is one of the most important roles they have, seeing that the software they produce runs a precision machine that goes at 100mph on common roads. If hardware is considered hard, then...
UPS can do better. I recently bought a flat screen TV on Amazon – they still have pretty good pricing on all electronics, and Amazon Prime makes even big ticket purchases way more impulsive than they...
Kim-Mai Cutler is quickly developing a reputation as a journalist in technology who provides well-researched commentary on the industry as a whole, particularly around the issues of housing perpetrated by the current tech boom. Her...
Early in the year, I decided that not everything that looked interesting was actually worth reading. Instead of stubbornly sticking with an article or a book or a story to its miserable conclusion, I figured that aggressive skimming and bailing early was a decent strategy to reclaim some lost time. One technique I've...
