Category: Links of Interest
The Customer Doesn’t Care About Your Costs
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If you’ve been wondering about selling yourself on value, here is a great video from Jonathan Stark. Just like Jonathan, I don’t think that saying you live in a high cost of living area is part of the conversation. In fact, the customer doesn’t care at all about your costs, the only thing they care…
You Can’t Control Passion
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Two good quotes out of my reading today as I worked through Company of One by Paul Jarvis: Passion and courage are almost impossible to control and can easily leave you feeling bad about yourself. It’s far easier to simply work at getting really good at something in demand, discovering how these skills can be…
hPDA and My Field Notes
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Joe Buhlig has a short post about the awesome uses for his Hipster PDA. I still carry around my Field Notes book, though I don’t use it as much as I once did. I’m more likely to put my bag down and pull out my Bullet Journal.
Eating Meat Versus Environmental Impact and Nutrients in Our Bodies
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A little while ago I shared an article on The Impact of Eating on Our Planet. It basically said that meat is not great for the environment because it takes lots of land to produce, but going vegetarian is not quite the answer either because clearing land for farming removes forest and peatland that sequester…
Experienced Developers Just Google Better
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Love this post from Sophie. In an attempt to dispel the idea that if you have to google stuff you’re not a proper engineer, this is a list of nearly everything I googled in a week at work, where I’m a software engineer with several years’ experience I’ve long maintained that after 10-years coding I…
Justin Jackson Doesn’t Have the Time or Money to Change Behaviour
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From Justin: The goal of bootstrapping is not to change the way people behave. I liked this article on some of the motivation differences between bootstrapping and VC funding. I’d wager that there are more people that end up successful out of bootstrapping. No not in the make a billion dollars and start a space…
We Fill Out Schedules Without Realizing What’s Happened
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Julianna Poplin on No Sidebar: We fill our schedules without even realizing what’s happened. We sign onto things without knowing why we are doing them. We go with the flow of what other parents do, what friends do, or what our family does without stopping to ask questions. Do we want to be doing what…
I Can’t Break Into Your House and Take Back What I Sold You
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Cory Doctorow on DRM When I was a bookseller in Toronto, nothing that happened would ever result in me breaking into your house to take back the books I’d sold you, and if I did, the fact that I left you a refund wouldn’t have made up for the theft. Not all the books Microsoft…
The Impacts of Eating on Our Planet
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On eating the planet to death at Wired. So let’s start with meat. Raising livestock for slaughter is, of course, not particularly good for the planet. Animals demand lots of food and water: A single cow might consume 11,000 gallons of water a year. And that cow burps up methane, an extremely potent greenhouse gas.…
Austin Kleon on Kids These Days by Malcolm Harris
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I enjoy Austin Kleon’s thoughts about Kids These Days. On the one hand, we think of childhood as a place that should be free of labor — we’ve decided, collectively, that it’s inhumane for our children to slave in sweatshops or dig in a coal mine — and on the other hand, between the classroom,…