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Breaking Down Team Organization
Steven Sinofsky — former Microsoft Windows executive, now a16z board partner — wrote a really in-depth article about organizing teams within companies: Functional versus Unit Organizations For the uninitiated, functional organization is grouping people by discipline: marketers as a team, software…
Retreating Back to Simple Notes
Simplicity in computing. A few months back, with Evernote spiraling downwards — both in terms of product offering and company — I had tried to switch over to Microsoft’s OneNote app. Out of all the Evernote alternatives, OneNote seemed to be…
Breaking Console Tradition with the Nintendo Switch
Nintendo finally announced the imminent arrival of their oft-cited next generation console, previously called the NX, but now formally called the Nintendo Switch. The launch trailer: Which showcases a handful of games — new and existing — as well as a…
How to Find a Good Manager
Recently, I was talking with a colleague at work who was about to leave the company, and they were asking me for any tips to take with them to their new job. In my head, the cliche that “people leave…
Finally the PC as a Gaming Console
Recently, I got excited and bought an custom Xbox One controller, courtesy of the Xbox Design Lab. In this case, “custom” really just means being able to select a color scheme for its various parts, but it’s a nice…
An Era Hostile to Innovation
140 characters instead of flying cars. Peter Thiel quipped this back in 2011, succinctly and pointedly describing the state of technological progress in the 21st century. It’s damning our modern tendencies to seek incremental improvements over grandiose new ideas,…
