Marc Andreessen is super smart, bracingly abrasive, and almost always worth listening to. This is a summary of a post from 2007, revived (embalmed?) on… Read More »Resource: Marc Andreessen on talent and hiring
These two things: 1) The two holes in the base of the attachment to allow water to drain.2) The rubber skirt around the edge to… Read More »Design matters (6): Bosch hand-blender attachment
… isn’t the same as finding the real solution, unless it’s the sort of problem that stays solved.* You’ll have the real solution – the… Read More »Solving a problem the first time…
I have some sympathy with Tobias Lütke (Shopify), Brian Armstrong (Coinbase), Jason Fried (Basecamp) and others when they announce – faced with the increasing politicisation… Read More »Mission Protocol: is your organisation a team, a family… or something else?
We almost always are.* One measure of a person’s capacity to make a deep contribution to your team is their ability to go into a… Read More »Inadequately prepared
It’s one of life’s deep ironies that if you want to work for love, you’re going to need a source of money. You might live… Read More »The money game
Here are three water dispensers: … may not be a thing of beauty but it’s clean and relatively well designed in terms of the aesthetics… Read More »Design Matters (5): the information architecture of a water dispenser
“Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Won’t you first sit down and estimate the cost to see if you have enough money… Read More »Setting constraints; counting the cost
This funny and terrifyingly-close-to-home video shows why: Hat tip to Yi Hui, who has a great page (well, more of a book) on this. See… Read More »Why should you learn to automate data analysis and reporting?
Whether or not you agree with Moyo’s ideas about “dead aid,” the first half of the interview raises lots of good questions about the incentives… Read More »Recommendation: Dambisa Moyo on “Dead Aid” and corporate management