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Fire the workaholics
via Signal vs. Noise by David on March 07, 2008
Jason Calacanis wants you to save money for your startup, so he has come up with 17 tips on how. The intention is good. Working lean is great and means you probably won’t need outside money and there’s some good stuff like don’t buy Microsoft Office and skip the phone system, but also some depressing bullshit like:Fire people who are not workaholics…. come on folks, this is startup life,...
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Tiny projects keep it new
via Signal vs. Noise by Jason on March 12, 2008
When do we do our best work? When we’re excited about something. Excitement breeds motivation. We do our best work when we’re motivated. A great way to stay motivated is to work on something new. No one likes being stuck on a project that never seems to end.The typical projectThe typical project starts out great but then our motivation and interest wanes as time goes on. It’s natural....
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Incredible "Big Dog" robot from Boston Dynamics
via Signal vs. Noise by Jason on March 17, 2008
[hat tip: Scott]
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Workaholics fixate on inconsequential details
via Signal vs. Noise by Matt on May 08, 2008
More ammunition for why you should fire the workaholics: They don’t actually get more done.Q: Do workaholics accomplish more than people who work fewer hours?A: Often, they don’t. That is because, as perfectionists, they may become so fixated on inconsequential details that they find it hard to move on to the next task, [Psychiatrist Bryan] Robinson said.As Gayle Porter [a professor who has...
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If you’re working in a big group, you’re fighting human nature
via Signal vs. Noise by Matt on April 24, 2008
When you’ve got a small group, you don’t need to constantly formalize things. You communicate and you know what’s going on. If you have a question about something, you ask someone. Formalized rules, deadlines, and documents start to seem silly. Everyone’s already on the same page anyway.Ten-groupsAccording to British author Antony Jay, there are centuries of evidence to support the idea...
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Standing versus Sitting
via Signal vs. Noise by Jamis on April 29, 2008
Almost two months ago, I decided that I wanted to try working standing up, rather than sitting down. When sitting in my comfortable, reclining office chair, my posture was terrible, my attention span was narrowing rapidly, and I was constantly battling fatigue. After looking around online a bit, it sounded like standing was the way to go.So I propped my keyboard and mouse up on a few...
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Yahoo! accounts become valid OpenIDs
via Signal vs. Noise by David on January 17, 2008
Yahoo! is jumping on the OpenID wagon and is making it possible to use your Yahoo! account as a valid OpenID. That’s another quarter of a billion OpenIDs out there! Put that together with the fact that AOL made their AIM
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Amazon's obsession with customers pays off
via Signal vs. Noise by Matt on January 23, 2008
Put Buyers First? What a Concept describes the way Amazon bailed out a reporter after he realized his son’s PlayStation gift had been stolen after being signed for.The Amazon customer service guy didn’t blink. After assuring himself that I had never actually touched or seen the PlayStation, he had a replacement on the way before the day was out. It arrived on Christmas Eve. Amazon didn’t...
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Ask 37signals: How do you document code?
via Signal vs. Noise by David on February 06, 2008
Emil Sundberg asks:When serving thousands of customers with Basecamp, Highrise etc there must be a lot of advanced features though, how do you document your projects? How easy is it for a newly hired developer to understand how your products work.The short answer is that we don’t document our projects. At least not in the traditional sense of writing a tome that exists outside of the code base...
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Steakhouse technique in a factory
via Signal vs. Noise by Matt on February 12, 2008
... group came up with a system in which all the parts for the dishwashers were stocked in open racks in the middle of the factory. Metal tags, green on one side and red on the other, hung on each rack, and the workers would flip the tags when they saw it was time to reorder, ensuring a steady supply.Reminds me of dining at Fogo de Chão, a Brazilian steakhouse (aka churrascaria) with locat...
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