I'm really surprised to hear you say that you have ramped up on photography since scaling down on 'externalising.' For myself, hopping on to FB/Flickr is an incredible motivator to take more shots and the only effective (read: feasible) way I know of to test how people react to my work. Either way, good on you!
Cheers. I do upload some images, but generally I collect them for reference (mostly I shoot documentary style subjects). I've found printing / mounting shots and taking them out to see friends a worthwhile way to share that is a good alternative to internet venues. I've noticed that people appreciate and communicate around physical imagery in a different way to digital. Meeting people like this I've given some away, sold others. If someone appreciates an image and you can give them some happiness, then it can be a lot more rewarding than an incremented hit-counter somewhere in the googleplex/FB/flickr.
Worth pulling out the Stack Overflow survey analysis. Looks like Stat Wing found a weak, but statistically significant relationship between compensation and job satisfaction for what it's worth. https://www.statwing.com/demos/dev-survey#workspaces/2496
The piece that caught my eye is the notion that the soul of Silicon Valley is moving north. I heard it working in Cupertino and I'm hearing it in the bay area. The question is will the old guard (and I'm including Facebook here) be enough to keep the valley...in the valley?
I think this is more a consequence of Google glomming up every available sizable office building that comes on the market in Mountain View since they, as well as other large employers like LinkedIn and MSFT--and some smaller companies, like Sumo Logic where I work--offer free lunch.
I've been running and getting lunch with a LinkedIn employee lately, I definitely know what you're talking about. The thing is, those people are all out on Shoreline and more or less isolated. What bothers me is that most of the younger startup people like me are usually in PA or head up to the city first chance they get.
I agree that actually taking the contract is problematic, but I love the idea of using AdWords as market research and validation. Maybe not revolutionary, but I've never seen such a cool example (a market that essentially didn't exist).
This is a technique that goes back decades. Put an ad in the classifieds section of newspapers advertising a product for $X plus $Y shipping and handling. Send a check to P.O. Box 12345, New York, NY and wait 6 - 8 weeks for delivery. If the number of orders weren't sufficient, return all the checks saying "Sorry, we sold out." If there are sufficient orders, the 6 - 8 weeks gives you enough lead time to procure the product from suppliers and fulfill the orders.
The Email sample, with simple and clear justifications, has to be the most valuable point in the post. I'm consistently amazed by writing that seems so genuine that I knowingly ignore the fact that it's spam.
While I agree wholeheartedly, remember that some of the problem is the current dichotomy. The sexist ass on one hand and the too non-confrontational to say anything on the other. I'd posit that it's more useful to figure out a realistic way to get that second group to speak out--even if it's not a hearty "fuck off".
I'm a non-confrontational person myself actually. It took me over 35 years to learn being that direct is actually less stressful in certain circumstances. Quite arguably, I'm still learning it. We get it in our heads that we owe the asshole an explanation. That's a trap. The explanation becomes it's own source of stress. Odds are strong, the asshole knows they're being an asshole. No, explanation is required.
Absolutely it is. Furthermore, the concept that an applicant should dictate whether he/she speaks to a manager is impractical. Just as dismissing screeners as largely incompetent is silly.
To be clear-he's absolutely correct that automated screening of applications isn't up to snuff.
Anyone else surprised to see Facebook/Twitter amongst the most popular for the B2S cohort? I would have guessed more of their allure to college-aged applicants had worn off and transferred elsewhere by now.
Worth mentioning that companies such as Box specifically position themselves as the enterprise-focused alternative to consumer storage solutions (read: Dropbox).
