I don’t like interviewing for a new job. Mind you, I’ve had 6 jobs already, so I’ve done my fair share, but I dislike the adversarial tones that the vast majority of these interviews take on almost immediately. Hell, I’ve conducted interviews in every single one of my jobs, and while...
I saw a piece coming from Bloomberg a couple of weeks ago about how — with the downward trend of tech IPOs in 2015 heading into this year — employees aren’t reaping the rewards they had...
In one of the latest a16z podcasts on role of academia in startups, Marc Andreessen ridicules a seemingly contradictory pair of stances taken by the media as critiques on the tech industry at large: There’...
This is yet another awesome a16z podcast: Holy Non Sequiturs, Batman! — What Disruption Theory Is … and Isn’t Basically, one of the consultants that actually studied the original theory of disruption is clarifying exactly what the theory is and is not. There’s a precise definition that adheres to the theory, but it has since...
It’s been an amazing four years at Square. By the time I write and edit and post this, it will be over a month since I’ve parted ways with the startup. Despite the...
In other contrarian news... I came across this article today that purports that liberal arts majors are needed at today’s hottest tech startups, even moreso than engineers and other technical folk. As it turns out, software companies still need supporters and salespeople and copywriters. When software interfaces with real, actual humans, there is an...
