Monday of this week I got an email from Twitter with a digest of stuff. Once I realized what it was I deleted it. First, I never signed up for this email. Second, Twitter never told me this was starting and gave me the chance to opt out. This totally smacks of the crap Facebook
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I don’t know about you but I really work to keep things minimal on my computer, but I’ve always had trouble keeping things out of the menu bar. If it’s not WIFI it’s Time Machine or Fantastical, that’s cluttering up the menu. Enter Bartender, it adds one icon and lets you bundle menu items in
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I came across 2 articles this week, one on the tech industry being in a valuation bubble and one on how Draw Something is doing now.
Remember a few weeks back when Zynga bought OMGPOP for a stupid amount of money because it looked like Draw Something was the next big thing. Well it seems that
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Ben Brooks wrote a fantastic article about free content and the expectations that were set eons (at least in web terms) ago about content being free.
I am already a member of Shawn Blanc’s site. I pay $3/month so he can write full time, and I’m happy to do it. Paying for his content at $3/month
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Sometimes I think that working for myself contracting sucks, then I remember what it was like to be employed full-time and I remember that it sucked more. On top of sucking more I had a boss that I had to report to and there were more crappy ones than good ones.
… people become
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I am working on a product, a product that I not only want to use but one that I hope enough others will want to use that I can drastically pull away from client work. You’ve most likely read Clients From Hell and I’m sure that any consultant (again not freelancer) can put client names
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I recently shared some images taken on the bike, and while I enjoy taking pictures of the stuff I get to see, I’m out there to really experience it too. Even the morning that post went up I was riding and watched the sun rise over the local mountains and I thought about taking a
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Your company has a culture, and it may not be the one you want. I’ve worked at a number of businesses and the fact is that the ‘culture’ that management thought they were fostering and the culture that the employees thought was there, were two entirely different things.
A company’s core values are what
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I must admit that I’m the unkept person that has some spelling mistakes in this story about finding the right staff to hire.
“Wait,” said Oscar, “but surely all things being equal, the person who takes the time to get the email right is better than the person who doesn’t?”
As the character Ernestine goes
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A recent comment on my post about staying away from services with no business models noted the irony that they found the link to the post via my Twitter account.
Twitter if course is by an large a free service, but it’s not really a service that has no business model. Currently Twitter has the ability
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