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Charge Cosby or #STFU.
Spoiler: This is not about Bill Cosby. It is about the usurpation of law to condemn a person by media without legal proof. I watched the Cosby show as a kid. I - like millions of other young teens - ...
Screw Fast Feedback
Agile teams love faster feedback Or so the mantra goes. Legions of agile enthusiasts and countless books, conference talks, webinars and training course harp on about faster feedback as though without...
Why every business is a startup or soon will be.
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 ...
Take Back Sharing: Why #Uber , #Lyft and #AirBnB are not part of the sharing economy
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...
NSFW: Why bad meetings are like drinking piss from a golden goblet.
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...
Try These 3 Ideas For More Successful Employment Interviews
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 ...
3 Things Recruiters Could Do to Deliver A More Valuable Service
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...
'For' vs 'With' - usage on the web!
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...
I want to work with you, not for you.
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...
Despair - the place between death and defiance
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 ...