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Every business - however large and however profitable - is a startup. Or is about to be. The big WTF is that they just don't realise it yet. This epiphany struck me recently and life hasn't been the ...
Sharing is... a babysitting circle When my wife was growing up, her parents - like many young parents of the day - needed to organize childcare. They were far away from extended family and only...
Actually this post is very suitable for work. I would suggest you organise a meeting and read this together, then decide how you might stop your meetings from being things that suck your soul and wil...
Over the last 20 years I have participated in countless interviews - even conducted a few myself. But recently I have been thinking more deeply about what an interview really is about. Disclaimer: I ...
Recently I have been looking for some paid work. Things are quiet on my own ventures, with my partners and previous clients and so, as part of my strategy, I hit my last resort - the open market. And...
As I searched the web for images to use for my recent post on "I want to work with you, not for you", I search google for "work for us" and for the term "work with us". In the end I chose to use a mo...
What does 'working for someone' mean to me. To me, it means a transaction of employment - between an employer, who pays you for X - and the employee who provides the X. To me , it means almost all th...
Imagine you couldn’t swim and you fell into a deep pool. As you sped down to the bottom — sinking lower and lower, confused and afraid. Your only hope. To reach the rocky bottom and push back up with ...
I love the wide group of writers on Medium. I love the writing experience. I love the reading experience. I hate the inflexibility of publishing. - No scheduling, no on-publish triggers to share on...
Know when to use a search party and when to form a kill circle. There is a great scene in the movie The Croods where the following exchange took place between Grug — the father of the neandertal Crood...
If this arrived in your inbox in response to a 'job' ad, how would you respond - if you even bothered to? Hi I'm Mike and I was exploring the interwebs and found a job you posted on [oops] - which su...
Recently I have been exploring doing some remote Ruby development work, specifically with startups and specifically with startups that interest me. I find it humorous that everyone wants only the bes...