“Managing a team of any size — from a handful of people to a whole company — is a continual balance between trying to empower people to achieve what they want (interesting projects, plentiful opportunities, a plethora of pay increases… Read More »Recommended Read: The Disappointment Frontier
When I was younger, more naïve, and less experienced, I thought that we could solve a lot of problems in politics by letting countries have different, even drastic, political systems, such as fascism and communism, and just allowing people to… Read More »Freedom to move
“When a company starts playing weird games with how it reports user activity, something is going very, very wrong. In general, when a company starts trying to obfuscate the true numbers about its revenue, growth, or profit, it’s a bad… Read More »Recommended Read: We’re Watching Facebook Die
We have a regular beer with a friend and what usually happens is, that we talk past each other. Each of us is describing their own situations, thoughts and problems, without the other reflecting much on what was said by… Read More »Talking past each other
I like new things. The excitement from a new phone, tablet, or laptop is always there. What can it do? What is new? This feeling usually leaves after a few days, and I am a couple of hundred Euros poorer.… Read More »Novelty gratification
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“YouTube’s Android app features perhaps the most egregious set of insulting user interface decisions. The first relates to individual entries for search results, subscriptions or other lists. Such a list contains a series of video previews that contain (today) an… Read More »Recommended Read: The accidental tyranny of user interfaces
“Generation X (and even more so generation Y) are cultures of immediate gratification. I’ve worked with a staggering number of engineers that expect the “career path” to take them to the highest ranks of the engineering group inside 5 years… Read More »Recommended Read: On Being A Senior Engineer