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Call for a price on how to improve calls to call for pricing 30 May 2013 | 12:41 pm
My new employer, Simply Measured, offers free tools and an enterprise plan for large companies. Which means that if you want to know how much it would cost your business to use our excellent products,...
Management with Nixon: 30 words 30 Aug 2012 | 12:20 am
“If you want people who don’t have to read it to read it, get it to thirty words.” “That’s not possible.” “Fortunately, it is.” – My manager Michael Nixon and me, 2011
… 21 May 2012 | 05:36 pm
“I’ve never really listened to my voice and gone, ‘That is a quality instrument.’ It’s more like, ‘Okay, that’s good and fucking loud.’ I’m kind of the horn section of any band I’m in.” – Neko Case
Getting your relationship off to a rip-roaring start 2 Apr 2011 | 05:55 pm
The installer’s the first thing most users interact with. Before “what are they trying to use the app for?” or “how do I build the best interface?” Parallels Desktop 6 for Mac has in the course of th...
A favorite poem, a favorite punk song 31 Mar 2011 | 03:47 pm
DULCE ET DECORUM EST Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs And towards our distant r...
Sony and the cool 2 Feb 2011 | 04:40 pm
I recommend this fine Brooks Review piece on how Sony’s lost their way (it was inspired, in turn, by this excellent Jeff Yang article in the Chronicle). When I was growing up, I loved, loved, loved So...
Interviewing: so, have you used our product? 1 Feb 2011 | 05:00 am
Why answering “no” is almost a certain no-hire. An interview loop is a full day of your time. And the company you’re interviewing at is burning at least six hours of their people’s time not developin...
Do you have any questions about Expedia? 28 Jan 2011 | 03:58 pm
I love interviewing. As much as anything else we do, it’s the chance to help pick the people who determine what the job’s going to be like, and the direction of the company. I’ll volunteer for any loo...
How the iPad wants to be used 28 Jan 2011 | 03:33 pm
I saw this by Fraser Speirs excerpted at Daring Fireball: The iPad is an intensely personal device. In its design intent it is, truly, much more like a “big iPhone” than a “small laptop”. The iPad is...
O Vexing Capricious Muse 19 Apr 2010 | 04:25 pm
I spent much of today on the book, and my work process went - write - discover I’d been goofing off on Wikipedia for half an hour - make coffee - write - mow lawn - try to write but actually res...
