4 month ago
Linkorama : Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams - In his moving talk, "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams," Pausch talked about his lessons learned and gave advice to students on how to achieve their own career and personal goals.
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5 month ago
deusx : Up With Grups - The Ascendant Breed of Grown-Ups Who Are Redefining Adulthood -- New York Magazine - "It’s about reimagining adulthood as a period defined by promise, rather than compromise. And who can’t relate to that?"
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5 month ago
Andy Baio : Paul Graham says You Weren't Meant to Have A Boss - big companies and junk food both scale, but they're unhealthy in similar ways
deusx : You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss - "The restrictiveness of big company jobs is particularly hard on programmers, because the essence of programming is to build new things."
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5 month ago
deusx : Notional Slurry » There are exactly two ways: one, and many - "So a generalist pays the rent, in the end, by having a reputation (social capital) and a wide-ranging interest (intellectual capital) and trading those for money."
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deusx : Not An Employee - "We do not work for you. You do not work for us. We choose to work together."
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deusx : Unasked-For Advice to New Writers About Money - "it very often appears to me that regardless of how smart and clever and interesting and fun my fellow writers are on every other imaginable subject, when it comes to money — and specifically their own money — writers have as much sense as chimps
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7 month ago
gleuschk : The Monkey Cage: What Predicts Success in Graduate Programs? Passing Comps versus Finishing the Dissertation - two hurdles that require completely distinct skills and talents.
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7 month ago
nelson : Shellen to LiveJournal - Guess he hasn't had enough blogging!
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9 month ago
veen : An Entirely Other Day - Wide vs. Deep - s/programmer/designer/
deusx : An Entirely Other Day - Wide vs. Deep - "I’ve got this theory about what it’s like to be a manager and what it’s like to be a developer ... and I think it explains pretty well why I deeply, profoundly hate the former and dearly, truly love the latter."
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9 month ago
Andy Baio : Announcement: I'm leaving Upcoming to work on Waxy.org full-time! - a friend said I should cross-post this to Waxy Links since they didn't see the main blog post
Jeremy Zawodny : Outgoing - Outgoing: Andy is leaving Yahoo... best of luck!
nelson : Waxy is leaving Yahoo - Good luck, Andy!
deusx : Waxy.org: Daily Log: Outgoing - "Next year, I'm focusing exclusively on Waxy.org and related coding projects. What does that mean? Yes, more links, but also the same flavor of original research and investigative journalism I've done in the past, though on a daily basis instead of t
Greg Storey : Waxy is the new Kottke. - I think you have to travel to Vietnam now, or something.
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10 month ago
adamrg : johnaugust.com » The Challenge of Writing in a Digital Age
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10 month ago
philgyford : Blog.pmarca.com: The Pmarca Guide to Career Planning, part 2: Skills and education - Marc Andreesen's interesting guide to what you should study at college if you're Marc Andreesen. (via Rodcorp)
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10 month ago
factoryjoe : Coworkers of the World, Unite! | The American Prospect - great write up of coworking, Citizen Space and Independents Hall. Utopia certainly has changed. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: coworking, alex hillman, citizen space, citizen agency, tara hunt, chris messina
deusx : Coworkers of the World, Unite! | The American Prospect - "The always-on, perpetual freelance culture of Web 2.0 has spawned its own "coworking" spaces, but are these new techno-optimists building sustainable communities?"
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10 month ago
deusx : SRT opens Ann Arbor office, more than triples its employees - "The company, which provides software development consulting, has just opened an office in Ann Arbor which will open its doors as a third space of sorts for the local computer community."
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11 month ago
deusx : Google workers - Ann Arbor News Extra - MLive.com - Kind of a fluff piece, doesn't tell me much about what's going on at Google A2. It's all "Wow, kooky Californian office space with weird carpet and massage chairs and sunlight! How can you get any work done?"
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12 month ago
deusx : In Silicon Valley, Millionaires Who Don’t Feel Rich - New York Times - "many such accomplished and ambitious members of the digital elite still do not think of themselves as particularly fortunate, in part because they are surrounded by people with more wealth"
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12 month ago
deusx : Web Worker Daily » Blog Archive How to Cope with Job Burnout « - "Even if you love your work, there will be times when it no longer fills you with passion and energy."
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16 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Working for The Man - Working for The Man: "If it's not what you love, don't do it."
deusx : Working for The Man | Tux Deluxe - "what kind of advice I would give if I could meet myself at his age, in order to guide the young Allison into a promising engineering career."
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17 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Vacation policy at Netflix: Take as much as you want - Vacation policy at Netflix: Take as much as you want: I'd love to know who the Yahoo spokesperson quoted in this story is... *sigh*
Rod Begbie : Vacation policy at Netflix: Take as much as you want - Holy crap, I wish that was true at [RhymesWithNose]. I currently get less than three weeks paid vacation per year, and Joy & I like to take a two-week vacation in the summer. It's my one major beef with my job, and the American "work ethic" in general. [via] #
Linkorama : Vacation policy at Netflix - Take as much as you want
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18 month ago
adamrg : A Glimpse and a Hook
deusx : Rands In Repose: A Glimpse and a Hook - "The terrifying reality regarding your resume is that for all the many hours you put into fine-tuning, you've got 30 seconds to make an impression on me. Maybe less."
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19 month ago
deusx : Charlie's Diary: The writer's lifestyle - "Being a self-employed writer is not a lifestyle that suits everyone. In fact, there are a lot of misconceptions about what the job entails."
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19 month ago
deusx : Web Worker Daily » Blog Archive An Afternoon, Co-Working at the Hat Factory « - "A friend emailed and told me to come check out an open house for the Hat Factory, a Coworking community space in San Francisco’s semi-industrial Dogpatch neighborhood"
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19 month ago
gleuschk : Finding a Job — PhDs.org: Science, Math, and Engineering Career Resources - surprising number of good links here. (to pass along to grad students)
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19 month ago
deusx : computerjobs.com: superhero - "Requirements: Laser vision Ability to fly Ability to breath underwater Invisible plane would be a plus Web throwing experince is a big plus"
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19 month ago
deusx : Rands In Repose: Ninety Days - "Your job interview isn't over until you've changed to become part of a new team."
43folders : Rands In Repose: Ninety Days - "Your job interview isn't over until you've changed to become part of a new team."
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