How is your work counted? I mean, literally? In the United States anyway, full-time work[1] has been traditionally split between exempt and non-exempt employment. The exemption here is referring to overtime pay; that is,...
Productivity and self-help is a pretty major literary genre, both in blog post form as well as published books and articles. Over the years, I've written numerous times about various systems I put...
No fine print. It was a few months after I started my new job at Affirm, when I noticed this literally plastered on the hallway walls leading to the company kitchens. Out of our set...
It is now month 5 of Bay Area's general Shelter-in-Place order, and even as the state and our area looks to reopen, the vast majority of companies who can still have employees operate...
The COVID-induced crisis is supposedly an accelerant of trends. If so, it seems inevitable that remote and distributed work will be rolled out and truly tested on a broad scale; many companies of the technology...
As a kid, I got into programming largely on my dad's encouragement. Despite not having any background in tech himself, he correctly surmised that computers will become an important facet of society; the...
