Posts tagged with Thoughts
Quora and the Motivations behind its Top Writers Program
Quora announced today that they're starting a new program to effectively recognize top contributors to the site over the past year or two, the latest (but the most explicit) in a number of steps to try to encourage…
Thinking about the Motivation to Write
Blogs are abandoned all the time. Somewhere between 50% and 99% of blogs are started and then quickly left for dead, after that initial honeymoon period of content and inspiration fades and the hard work of producing something interesting and…
Building from the Fountain of Youth
A few months ago, I opined on that hiring not just A-players is a legitimate strategy; the gist was that, for most jobs and business models, "A players" simply were not required for all positions. (and oftentimes, any…
"Growth Hackers" are all Around Us
"Growth hacking" is the hot new software job of 2012. Except that it isn't. Beyond the somewhat forced proclamations by a few bloggers, trying to optimize for growth via combinations of programming, SEO, A/B testing,…
Our Money's Worth
I was listening to the last episode of the This American Life podcast, and they were detailing how a company called Journatic was basically outsourcing newspaper articles to the Philippines. Now, they were previously an under-the-radar content company, but the…
The Importance of Degradation
I never caught onto Pandora/Last.fm/Spotify online music craze. A combination of: * a lack of connectivity (commuting on the BART), * quizzical music tastes (with a soft spot for Asian pop), and * a obsessive tendency to listen to the…
