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The Folly of Stack Ranking and Measuring Impact

The Folly of Stack Ranking and Measuring Impact

Recently I came across a brief statement on Facebook about the well-explained evils of stack ranking, with a half-hearted Devil’s Advocate argument about how impact can absolutely be an objective metric, measured and ranked[1]. I still think this…

The Company Guessing Game

The Company Guessing Game

Raise your hand if you’ve ever received mysterious emails or LinkedIn messages that resemble this: We’re looking for awesome [engineers / designers / product managers] to join our totally awesome team in [major tech hub]! We need you to help…

The Physical, Real World Production Environment

I was visiting a friend of mine who leads a software team at Tesla. He casually mentioned that, in their industry, manual QA is one of the most important roles they have, seeing that the software they produce runs a…

A Frustrating Exercise in Package Reception

A Frustrating Exercise in Package Reception

UPS can do better. I recently bought a flat screen TV on Amazon – they still have pretty good pricing on all electronics, and Amazon Prime makes even big ticket purchases way more impulsive than they really ought to be. I…

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Salary Requirements for a House in Silicon Valley

Salary Requirements for a House in Silicon Valley

Kim-Mai Cutler is quickly developing a reputation as a journalist in technology who provides well-researched commentary on the industry as a whole, particularly around the issues of housing perpetrated by the current tech boom. Her piece on the effect of…

Too Many Loaded Terms; Did Not Read

Early in the year, I decided that not everything that looked interesting was actually worth reading. Instead of stubbornly sticking with an article or a book or a story to its miserable conclusion, I figured that aggressive skimming and bailing…