Coding is Not My Job, I Solve Problems
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Have to admit that I do think of myself as a coder, not a problem solver. According to Mike [I should be writing less code][lesscode]. > This is why I stick with the mantra “Write less code”. Whenever I feel like something is getting bigger than it should be or more complicated than it should…
Shawn Blanc – 50 Things About Blogging
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Been a member of Shawn Blanc’s site since he introduced it. Today he posted 50 things he learned about blogging to celebrate the 5 year anniversary of his blog last week. These two made me laugh. Send short emails Send shorter emails than that Probably the item I’m most working on is: Inbox zero means…
Boomerang – Making Gmail and Google Apps Easier
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All of my email accounts are either Gmail or Google Apps. I’m firmly in the Google camp. I don’t even use an email client on the desktop, I happily use [MailPlane][mail] ([Appstore][mailapp]). You can read [my review of Mailplane][mailrev] if you’re really interested in why I use it. Today I want to point you at…
A Company Culture I Might Enjoy
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Yes I think that 99% of businesses suck and it’s unlikely I’ll work for most people (on full time contract or as an employee) but Valve seems like a place that might suit, at least judging from their [employee manual][man] > It’s our shorthand way of saying that we don’t have any management, and nobody…
Apple and Microsoft on the same side for tablets?
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A great article from Shawn Blanc about MS and Apple having a bunch of the same goals with their tablets. They both want you to move past the thought that a tablet is for strictly consumption and it to a world where it’s your primary tool all the time. Yes that means even for creating…
Chasing Payment Sucks
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Getting work done is one thing, but getting paid for that work is way more important. > Later that day, she emailed me asking if I knew what was wrong with her website. I emailed her back that it was probably sad she didn’t pay me. It would cheer up after the invoice with the…
Surfacing Old Content
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For a while I’ve been working to surface some of by old content. I think that there are lots of articles of quality that just get lost as they get pushed back in time by new writing. While this article has a bunch of great ideas there are a few that I hate. So my…
2012 Tour de France Prologue – Cancellara is back and Wiggins is Strong
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Coming in 2nd, just 7 seconds behind an unbeatable Cancellara, Wiggins has shown that he is still on form and deserving of his moniker as the favourite for the Tour win. Out of the rest of the GC contenders Evans is the next best at 17 seconds down, followed closely by Hesjedal at 18 seconds…
What Does a Meeting Cost
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I hate meetings. Well that may not be quite accurate, I hate meetings that waste my time and about 90% of meetings in the corporate world are a waste of time. At one place I worked I forced the boss to take something off my TODO list for every meeting I was supposed to attend,…
Meshing with Employment
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I don’t mesh well with full-time employment. Be it onsite with someone or on contract still working from home. While I have a few ideas about exactly why I had not looked at it from [this perspective][cook] before. > There are a lot of companies that want short-order cooks, they want implementers and builders to…
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