This week, I’m making it two in a row with a reader question. Today’s question is about an internal company framework and how to survive it. Well, it’s actually about how to work effectively with it, but the options there are sort of limited to “get in there and fix it yourself” and “other” when…
A tweet came into my Twitter feed last night, and I noted that (1) I was a little late to the party and (2) it was wildly popular. I found myself a bit surprised, because it was critical of the open plan office construct, which I figured was by now just an accepted condition of salaried employment,…
I stopped in the gas station today to pick up a few sodas and iced teas. It was a time-poor man’s grocery run here in Lousiana, where it was in the 80s today. This expedition left me with a plastic bag full of sweating drinks, a soggy receipt, and a lesson about the cost of being…
True to my promise from last week, I am making a more concerted effort to bun down the queue of reader questions on my blog topics Trello board. Thus, today brings you another answer to a reader question (one of these days, I may get around to doing video answers). I am actually obfuscating this…
A lot was made of my recent and popular post, The Beggar CEO and Sucker Culture. Given the traffic that it generated, discussions took place ranging from the merits of developers unionizing to startup versus established corporate cultures. Perhaps the most common theme, however, was what my call to action was and the actual mechanics…
