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The Utility of 360° Feedback
Ah, the 360° feedback process. It's a common practice for HR teams of larger companies to implement, as a way to counteract managerial biases and singular points of view, by involving more perspectives surrounding each individual and in…
The Startup Flywheel
The PayPal Mafia is stuff of legend around Silicon Valley—at least, for the first 2 decades of the 21st century. Counted in this group of early employees are a number of entrepreneurs and investors for some major companies during…
Post-COVID
One of the truisms of pandemics is that they're a function of public health, which means that their duration relies on public perception as much as it does on, say, the actual science of the virus. Hell, our…
Building a Mechanical Keyboard
I've geeked out on keyboards here, specifically the Kinesis Advantage line of ergonomic keyboards; I've also geeked out mechanical watches. So it's inevitable, preordained even, that I'll geek out on mechanical keyboards…
Cloud Gaming as a Feature
So last week, pretty much to no one's surprise, Google announced that they'll be shutting down their gaming streaming service Stadia by January next year. Even at launch, aside from the rocky launch of the service…
Review: Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters
If there's a category of literature that's invites more skepticism than self-help books, it may be self-help parenting books. The genre combines the pseudo-science of pop psychology and copious amounts of anecdotal evidence,…
