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We were in a board meeting today and the founder/CEO made a comment about a deal he's working on and I said "well you learned that well in school." He smiled and said, "we didn't go to school" (meaning college). I didn't actually know that, but it did not surprise me. I have learned that […]
It is a little-known fact that I nearly killed Facebook before it started. At least, that's what I like to think. Though, perhaps it was in...
You want to get something done. But it’s too big to do it by yourself, so you bring in some friends to help out. In your dreams, all your friends just “click”, understand exactly what it is they’re all supposed to do, and do it quickly and effective. In reality, this almost never happens.
I decided to start a company after graduating from business school at MIT Sloan. After taking courses with industry leaders like Jack Welch and learning the fundamentals of solid management practic…
Remember how Justice Gray started that little fad about becoming a better developer in 6 months?
In this series, I’m recounting work stories to learn from my mistakes. I call them Things I Learned the Hard Way .
An article that explores the feelings of doubt and how to tame them.
An article that explores the idea of imperfect beauty - taming perfectionism with the Japanese art of Wabi-sabi.
My management career began with a misunderstanding. "Rands, you're doing a great job on tools development and I'd really like you to Lead the effort." It soun
I'm not the first person to talk about this paradigm and I won't be the last. Every single programmer I've seen that is exceptionally good at their job also does it for fun.…
Some of you know I worked at Microsoft years ago (’94-’03) as what they call a program manager. In any other company the job would be known as team lead or project manager, and it was a…
I have hated Tim Ferriss for a long time. I have hated him since we both had editors at Crown Publishing who sat next to each other and I heard how difficult he is. I didn’t blog about it because first of all, I’m sure the buzz about me is that I’m difficult, too. And […]
Are you a software developer applying to a small company? Here’s a tip from someone who has read thousands of resumes. When you’re applying to a startup, or a software company with less than, say, …
Or: Why work 8 hours/day for someone else when you can work 16 hours/day for yourself?
George Oates is responsible for much of what is great about Flickr. George Oates is just about the last person any sane company would lay off. I don't know what to think about Yahoo after reading how they laid off George Oates.
