Posts tagged with Work
Job Posting “Deliberately Implausible”
There was a study done a few years ago by Microsoft that showed that those infamous Nigerian scam emails were written with terrible English grammar for a reason; it was an easy way way to implicitly filter for the gullible…
Slack and Email and the Lowest Common Denominator
a16z is a well-known venture capital firm in the valley. I recently discovered that they produce a weekly podcast, and after a few episodes, have been impressed with the range of topics they're covering. While they have some…
Review: The Startup of You
The Startup of You is all about mapping the strategies and tactics that make startups – in theory – successful, and apply them to careers. The central tenets revolve around taking moderate amounts of risk, having backup plans, and not being afraid…
Go to College
There is a curious rebellion against higher education. I get the sense that it's an overreaction, a correction to the unquestioned emphasis placed onto college over the past few decades. The millennial generation is no longer seeing the…
Full Stack Development Interview
I recently did an interview with Talentbuddy. They're a mentorship program that looks to get people started on full-stack web development in about three months time, and wanted me to speak to our front-end technologies at Square, specifically…
(Management) Game Respect (Engineering) Game
Software engineers. Most of the time, we're docile and content and easy to please. We write software for big enterprises and tiny startups alike, create our own startups once in a while, and only occasionally pen a blog…
