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The ‘Busy’ Trap

Posted By: Christineon: July 09, 2012In: About Smarterware
The 'Busy' Trap

The NY Times’ Tim Kreider’s defense of idleness: Idleness is not just a vacation, an indulgence or a vice; it is as indispensable to the brain as vitamin D is to the body, and de... Read more

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IFTTT Recipe for Todo.txt

Posted By: Christineon: June 25, 2012In: About Smarterware

Nick Barrett’s handy If This Then That recipe adds an item to the todo.txt file in your Dropbox via GChat. Clever. Read more

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The Woman in the Facebook Frat House

Posted By: Christineon: June 23, 2012In: About Smarterware

Early Facebook employee, Katherine Losse: More interesting than the fact that the photo was taken and posted on Facebook is that it didn’t occur to anyone in the office that there was... Read more

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Owning Your Own Words – Is It Important?

Posted By: Christineon: June 19, 2012In: About Smarterware

Paul Ford: I don’t presume my work is important, but it is important to me. There is so much latent value in our own personal databases of words, links, ideas, emails, likes, photos, I... Read more

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How to Tell if Your Tech Salary is Fair

Posted By: Christineon: May 08, 2012In: About Smarterware

Most people have no idea what the market rate or prevailing wage is for their profession and career level, much less where they fall on the pay scale.I’m tired of fluffy unvetted career ad... Read more

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“Gangbang Interviews” and “Bikini Shots”: Silicon Valley’s Brogrammer Problem

Posted By: Christineon: April 27, 2012In: About Smarterware

“Want to bro down and crush code?” No. Read more

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Kevin Kelly on What You Don’t Have To Do

Posted By: Christineon: April 24, 2012In: About Smarterware

As you educate yourself about your own talent and ambitions, you graduate from doing a task right to doing the right task. It takes some experience to realize that a lot of work is better le... Read more

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New Interview on Triangulation

Posted By: Christineon: February 10, 2012In: About Smarterware

Had the chance to chat at length with my TWiT cohorts Leo Laporte and Tom Merritt on their interview show Triangulation this week. We covered a whole lot of territory, from poetry to code to... Read more

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The Week We Stopped SOPA

Posted By: Christineon: January 20, 2012In: About Smarterware

Anil sums up the history and future of web protest as we wrap up the week we stopped SOPA. I had chills on Wednesday, the day the web went black in protest of SOPA, because we were all witne... Read more

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The maker makes: on design, community, and personal empowerment

Posted By: Christineon: January 03, 2012In: About Smarterware

Jeffrey Zeldman: The first thing I got about the web was its ability to empower the maker. I say “it made me” but I made it, too. You get the power by using it. Nobody confers it on you. Read more

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Clay Johnson’s Information Diet

Posted By: Christineon: October 31, 2011In: About Smarterware

My information diet consists of a cap of 6 hours a day of total, proactive information consumption. That means everything that requires my explicit attention that doesn’t involve anoth... Read more

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The Jobsian fallacy

Posted By: Christineon: October 31, 2011In: About Smarterware

Scott Berkun: I’m sad Steve Jobs is gone. I’m sadder still to see the vultures of shallow thinking circling his name. There is a fallacy around great men, a notion we can learn best fro... Read more

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Out of Curiosity Comes Everything

Posted By: Christineon: October 05, 2011In: About Smarterware

“I’m a big believer in boredom,” [Steve Jobs] told me. Boredom allows one to indulge in curiosity, he explained, and “out of curiosity comes everything.” The man who popularized pe... Read more

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Joe Moon on Facebook’s New Timeline Feature

Posted By: Christineon: September 27, 2011In: About Smarterware

…what I find jarring about this formulation is the same thing that bothers me about the alarming trend of weddings in which the photographers and videographers have free reign, even du... Read more

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Automattic’s Company Creed

Posted By: Christineon: September 21, 2011In: About Smarterware

I will never stop learning. I won’t just work on things that are assigned to me. I know there’s no such thing as a status quo. I will build our business sustainably through passionate an... Read more

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