Book Review: “The Information Diet” by Clay Johnson from O’Reilly Media
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Technical Job Postings: Know Your Audience
Spotted in a job posting for a technical position:
Book Review: “Process Improvement Essentials” by James R. Persse, PhD
tl;dr: A well-written book I’d recommend to all in the IT field who have any interest in working smarter rather than harder to bring their projects ...
At Risk: An Online Service is Sometimes Neither Online Nor Serviceable
The down side of relying upon all these online services is that, well, they’re online services [1]. The sad truth of the internet is that these things disapp...
Online Services I Find Worth Paying For
While I appreciate getting something for free [1] as much as the next person, I’m also very willing to shell out cash for online services which I find both u...
It’s Called Marketing for a Reason
Let’s do a little experiment. The next time you’re in a room full of techies, say something along the lines of, “Hey, how about that marketing department, eh...
Rethinking Education Requirements in Tech Job Postings
A few days ago I posted this tweet:
Email Overload? Reclaim Your Inbox, Don’t Banish It
I recently read two articles while riding the bus[1]. The first one was in Forbes Magazine. Thierry Breton, the CEO of Atos Global, has decreed that since he...
Take The Red Pill: 8 non-programming books you should probably read
As techies we tend to suffer from a fair bit of professional tunnel vision. Like Neo, often all we see is the code. However there’s an entire world on the ot...
It’s About Needs.
I’ve been doing various bits of writing lately, both for my blogs and for other purposes. This morning I was sitting at a cafe, scrawling ideas in my notebo...