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Last-Minute Lunch
On the way back from my Monday morning meeting, I was pulled into the Rainbow to pick up a baguette, some cheese, and salami. Yes, one of my favorite lunches – but why now, why today? Turns out, I had a very important, last-minute lunch meeting:
Beware of Geeks Bearing Platforms
“Building on top of someone elses (Apple’s) platform is getting scarier and scarier. They are constantly making sweeping changes that effect our bottom line and provide no transparency, or analytics of almost any kinds, for devs. If I didn’t know better I’d say apple hates devs and thinks of us only as a necessary evil… …
Get Comfortable
“We tend to massively underestimate the compounding returns of intelligence. As humans, we need to solve big problems. If you graduate Stanford at 22 and Google recruits you, you’ll work a 9-to-5. It’s probably more like an 11-to-3 in terms of hard work. They’ll pay well. It’s relaxing. But what they are actually doing is …
Facebook and CraigsList Feel the Same
Video of the Tech Burnout Discussion I Led @ Minnebar 2012
From an audience-engagement perspective – this was one of my favorite MinneBar sessions ever. Thanks to all that shared their burnout experiences. More info in the MinneBar Wiki: 410 Gone: A Discussion of Burnout, Depression, and Finding Happiness in the Technical World
We’re Not Ourselves
thanks to nazgulnsarsil for inspiring the comic.
“You can’t change the world”
“Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life or do you want to come with me and change the world?” – Steve Jobs
Two Prices
“This is, after all, the way of our new product-based civilization — in order to participate as a citizen of the social web, you must yourself manufacture content. Progress requires that forms must be filled. Thus it is a critical choice of any adult as to where they will perform their free labor.” – Paul …