Feedback, performance reviews, appraisals. A collective shiver just went down all of your spines. These words are so highly politicized in today's work environments it's no wonder people can't stand them. For many years I too dreaded the idea of getting critical feedback. I sought recognition and…

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Be careful not to throw your weight around without knowing it. Yesterday I was in a board meeting for a company I advise. Great group, strong business, profitable, all the good stuff. But the owner-CE

I’ve been pestering Apple for years publicly and privately about the manipulation and outright scams going on in the App Store. Apple has made some progress here and there, but overall Apple’s strictn

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Simon Landrein When Microsoft leapfrogged Apple last month to become the world’s most valuable company, the symbolism was rich, given the pair’s i... Already a subscriber? Sign In

For the system at work, I am on call one week every seven weeks. For most of the past ten years, I have been on organized on call rotations for the systems I have been developing. I think being on cal

I'm not going to sit here and blame kevin or anything, I don't think anyone could have seen this coming (except maybe Ted Kaczynski), but instagram turns us into a hyper-specialized version of ourselves. People are reduced to a single identity Do you love to travel? Do you love photography? What…

Yesterday the Supreme Court held a hearing in the case Apple Inc. v. Pepper. “Pepper” is Robert Pepper, an Apple customer who, along with three other plaintiffs, filed a class action lawsuit alleging

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December 8, 2012 To climb or not to climb Cotopaxi, that has been our question. Arriving to the city of Latacunga, gateway to Ecuador’s greatest climbing and high mountain hiking opportunities, we decided to bite the big-bad-cost-bullet for our first attempt at real mountaineering. While Jeremy and…

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Tech The kingdom is now the largest single investor for U.S. startups, an unsettling fact for Silicon Valley Updated Oct. 16, 2018 1:50 pm ET Turkish officials say a team of alleged Saudi assassins ap

Amazon’s ‘Rekognition’ program shouldn’t be used as a tool for mass surveillance 4 min read· Oct 16, 2018 -- Photo: Matt Cardy/Getty The authenticity of the following anonymous op-ed has been verified

J F C Fuller did not invent the tank. That distinction should probably fall to E L de Mole, an Australian who approached the British war office in 1912 with a design that was — in the words of histori

The Arc of Company Life - and How to Prolong It

What happens to a company when a visionary CEO is gone? Most often innovation dies and the company coasts for years on momentum and its brand. Rarely does it regain its former glory. Here’s why. Micro

Every world-class athlete has a coach: every tennis player at Wimbledon, every golfer in the PGA, and every hitter in the MLB. An athlete without a coach is incomplete. So, why don't we think the same

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I t’s an empirical fact: San Francisco is a crappier place to live these days. Sightings of human feces on the sidewalks are now a regular occurrence; over the past 10 years, complaints about human wa

Kavanaugh and the Blackout Theory It is both easy and common to drink, act and then have no memory of it. Sept. 29, 2018 College students drinking at a tailgate party before an Indiana University foot

At 6:30 a.m. on Sunday, April 29, 2018, a group of ten skiers set out from a secluded mountain hut more than 9,000 feet up in the Swiss Alps . Perched on the top of a rocky hill surrounded by towering

Scott Barnett Oct 31, 2011 Fred – nice post. By CEO/VP Product, I assume you mean Product Manager, correct? If so, I’m in 100% agreement – one addition, is the technical co-founder should be very cogn

For the past several years, I've been thinking a lot about learning science, or the systematic investigation of how we learn. This was fueled by a switch in career trajectories after I graduated college towards software engineering. There's this really intimidating article that I often hesitantly…

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