Category: Career

Spotify’s Design Lead on Why Side Projects Should Be Stupid

June 18, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

There’s a famous Steve Jobs interview where he talks about the moment he realized that the world was defined and built by people who were no smarter than him. It was the same moment he knew that he was free to make anything possible. I love that interview because that’s not how most people learned things in school, says van Schneider. We’re taught from the beginning that we have to sit there and learn from people who are smarter than us. Sure, there might be people who are more experienced, but they also had to learn and fail to get there, and we often don’t get to see that part. I think once you embrace this reality, so many doors …

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Spotifyâ€™s Design Lead on Why Side Projects Should Be Stupid

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A Platform and Blogging Tool, Medium Charms Writers – NYTimes.com

June 18, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Evan Williams is at it again. Mr. Williams is sitting in an office here a mile up the road from Twitter, where he is a founder and is still a board member, working on Medium, an amorphous-sounding company that could be one more curio of the Internet age or might end up taking over the world. It’shard to tell from talking to Mr. Williams. He is plenty thoughtful, but unlike so many other people I spent time with in San Francisco last week, he’s not a big talker. He loves text, he loves code and he loves typing.When he stepped aside as chief executive of Twitter in 2010, Mr. Williams wanted to get back into blogging and found the tools …

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A Platform and Blogging Tool, Medium Charms Writers – NYTimes.com

Scoop: A Glimpse Into the NYTimes CMS

June 18, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

You know the importance of technology to the future of journalism has become a widely accepted fact when a prominent editor decides to join a new company because of its content management system. That’s what Ezra Klein told The New York Times about his decision to leave The Washington Post for Vox Media, a digital publisher with a fancy, custom-built CMS. Klein couldn’t quite describe what made the Vox system so special, but the fact that a journalist said he loved, let alone even tolerated, his CMS was all you needed to know that the world has changed. Suddenly, the CMS, an often derided but necessary tool of modern journalism, is cool. Vox uses its CMS as a recruiting tool. Google is not-so…

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Scoop: A Glimpse Into the NYTimes CMS – NYTimes.com

Tim Ferriss Uses This Simple Productivity Hack To Organize His Days

June 18, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Countess Entrepreneur, author, and speaker Tim Ferriss. Tim Ferriss, a well-known entrepreneur and the author of “The 4-Hour Workweek,” says some people think he’s got his life all figured out because he’s always sharing good advice. But he insists that he’s got plenty of bad habits, too, including continually hitting his alarm’s snooze button because he’s afraid of facing the day. Ferriss has, however, found a better way to start your day. He explains it in a new podcast, “Productivity Tricks for the Neurotic, Manic-Depressive, and Crazy (Like Me).” The solution is a simple productivity hack: Before starting your day, get a piece of paper and write down three to five things that are causing you the most stress. “They’re often…

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Tim Ferriss Uses This Simple Productivity Hack To Organize His Days

Just a Prototype Away from Fame and Fortune: ProtoHack brings a shellfish delivery app to life

June 17, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

I’ve had millions of ideas in my day. Most of them are terrible, but I’ve always lived with the frustration of not being able to realize them beyond mere conception. Sure, I could tell them to people, put that’s just air. I could write them down or try sketching them out, but that’s just chicken-scratch. I want something tangible to hold in my hands; something that functions; something aesthetically pleasing; something I can let others interact with. I am not a coder, developer, or hacker. I don’t know much about business plans or startups. I consider myself an above average user of Microsoft Word, but I don’t think I’ve ever been able to connect to a printer without major …

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Just a Prototype Away from Fame and Fortune: ProtoHack brings a shellfish delivery app to life