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Tag: Psycho

  • Breaking through

    Breaking through: Building your brand: If you are in the start-up world, either as an employee, founder, investor or aspiring to do any of the three, it is important to thoughtfully build your online and offline identity. The beauty is that these efforts are valuable for anything you might want to do, and, in fact,…

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  • How Dave Goldberg of SurveyMonkey Built a Billion-Dollar Business and Still Gets Home By 5:30 PM

    How Dave Goldberg of SurveyMonkey Built a Billion-Dollar Business and Still Gets Home By 5:30 PM: Meetings. Who Needs ‘Em? Partly in reaction to his experience at Yahoo!, Goldberg only attends “two and a half” regular scheduled meetings every week. Goldberg said, “I’m probably more anti-meeting than most people in my job. It’s just in…

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  • I Need People to Work Overtime

    Management Myth 15: I Need People to Work Overtime: When a manager wants people to work overtime, to feel invested in an organization, what’s the real issue behind the words? It might be that the manager wants people to have the same sense of investment in the organization as the manager does. In that case,…

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  • The 12 cognitive biases that prevent you from being rational

    The 12 cognitive biases that prevent you from being rational: The human brain is capable of 1016 processes per second, which makes it far more powerful than any computer currently in existence. But that doesn’t mean our brains don’t have major limitations. Some more to think about… or just a good reference of the cognitive…

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  • The Project Saboteur’s Handbook

    The Project Saboteur’s Handbook: There are many ways to sabotage a project. Recognizing them is the first crucial step to counter them. In this brief handbook I will present a number of ways of sabotage that I have encountered in various projects. This post is the saboteur’s handbook. Tongue in cheek…

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  • Stables and Volatiles

    Stables and Volatiles: I believe a healthy company that wants to continue to grow and invent needs to equally invest in both their Stables and their Volatiles. Your Stables are there to remind you about reality and to define process whereby large groups of people can be coordinated to actually get work done. Your Stables…

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  • The Internet’s Best Terrible Person Goes to Jail: Can a Reviled Master Troll Become a Geek Hero?

    The Internet’s Best Terrible Person Goes to Jail: Can a Reviled Master Troll Become a Geek Hero?: On a gray Wednesday morning in October, the car headed west on the Lincoln Highway Bridge hit 100 miles per hour and I started to worry it might hurtle off into the tangle of rusted-out warehouses and smoke…

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  • Gun Control

    “Gun” “Control”: Please note that this is a post about technology, not politics. The tech industry cheerleads the displacement and reconfiguration of huge institutions like the music industry and telecoms. Added via Pocket.

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  • What Programmers Want

    Following up on A Players – if you do happen to have some of them, here’s how to treat them: What Programmers Want. And why it’s all going to be better soon anyway: The end of management.

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  • A Players

    A series of articles about A players in IT. I guess in Enterprise IT, we can be glad if we see B players at least from remote 😉 We all talk about recruiting “A Players,” but that’s not how the Valley actually works. Why Zuckerberg was Right. The Coming Collapse of Average.

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