I work with a lot of creative guys, and we’re always coming up with product ideas (usually websites & mobile apps). Good ones. Even great ones. But I’m training myself not to care, unless I first get an answer to “but how will you market it?” This is the hard question. The magic of Craigslist, [...]
When I was an arranging major in college, my prof (Paris Rutherford) gave me some great advice that spans all art. He suspected that I was attempting to write an opus, a masterpiece, a piece to be remembered and admired (and he was right). But my work was clunky, and more weird than anything. ”Stephen”, [...]
You’re probably heard several definitions of money. A common one is “money is a measure of value”. This is true, but it misses a big point: money doesn’t just measure something’s value; it measures your value of that something. That’s where charging for something comes in really handy: it exposes other people’s true motives. For [...]
My friend Nate works for a church. Recently he went out to lunch with the lead pastor who asked him to verbalize his ideal job description. This exercise was intended to explore Nate’s passions (rather than his immediate role) with a view to putting him in a position he was made for (his sweet spot), [...]
This quote is solid, solid gold: Our hiring is based on the assumption that there are fundamentally two groups of people in the tech industry: there are left brained science type programmers who can write amazing amounts of complicated code with ease; and then there are the right brained creative types. While left brained programmers [...]
FACEBOOK (quote snippet from here) …says Andrew Bosworth, a coding legend who runs a “boot camp” for new engineers. “This place is fast paced and free form. If you’re not coming up with new ideas, then you’re just along for the ride.” The working environment is designed for, and modified by, people who toil long [...]
