Category: inspiration
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When The Noise Is Too High You End Up With A New Norm Of Mediocrity
My co-workers and I were doing some user studies with an internal developer who was using our tools in order to see how he was using it daily and also asking him how he debugs problems with our tools. It was amazing to see the developer go to the homepage of the tool, he noticed a…
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The hardest part about asking for feedback is listening and changing
In the restaurant that I own, I Privé in downtown Burlingame we receive a lot of feedback from our customers. Yelp, Travelocity and Facebook users send us both positive and negative reviews, all of them public. We solicit private feedback from our diners via email. We leave paper forms in the final bill before they…
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link: The Ultimate List Of Developer Podcasts – Simple Programmer
I love listening to podcasts. This is a good list of podcast by developers for developers. I am currently catching up on the old episodes of ‘Debug’ http://simpleprogrammer.com/2014/03/10/ultimate-list-developer-podcasts/ – Tony Tam
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link: Meet The Operators: Q&A with Christa Quarles, CFO of OpenTable
“From conducting Equity Research at Thomas Weisel to entering tech as the CFO of Playdom (which she helped sell to Disney for $760mm), Christa Quarles went on to senior roles at Disney and Nextdoor. She is now the CFO of OpenTable and is in charge of figuring out the strategy for what OpenTable does next…
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Rosie The Riveter museum in Richmond
http://www.rosietheriveter.org/ “As the U.S. faced a new and daunting challenge of a global war in the 1940s, people on the home front came together as never before. The stories of their struggles, which broke barriers and shaped many of today’s best social innovations, chart a path for new vision today. Rosie the Riveter is a…
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link: Get IP Address from Command Line feedly
Get IP Address from Command Line http://davidwalsh.name/get-ip-address
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Living without regrets until our dying days
We will all die one day. That is the way of life, it’s interesting that even kids realize their parents will die one day and they don’t seem very surprised by that. It’s an eventual fact all humans accept as part of life. People often say “live life as if it’s your last”. I interpret…
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money makes more money
(repost from 1/9/2007) I believe I have a healthy relationship with money. I know how to invest my money, I know how to earn money, and most importantly I know how to spend money on the people in my life. I usually don’t make such bold statements since I’m usually a humble person. Money in…
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Don’t be that person…
Don’t be that person who does not respond to emails who does not respond to feedback who is late to meetings who says he will do something but doesn’t after repeatedly reminded who speaks at a level of detail that is too little or too much in an executive meeting who gets too emotional in…
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Life Is.. Work And Love?
(Repost from 2006) So this film producer and I were chatting on the train back from Copenhagen and we got on the subject of working for Yahoo! and I was telling him about how I got a very unique perspective about the major news events the last 7 years. Almost 100% of the people out there…