My current home screen. Favorite new app of the bunch is Habit List.
Month: October 2015
The Long View. Scott writes about taking the long view when it comes to changes at a job or company. The relationships you build and people you meet can help guide you through any change.
The Network Man. Enjoyed reading this New Yorker feature on Reid Hoffman a couple days ago. One section stood out to me, particularly given the rise of Slack for these kind of networks.
The keeper of your career will be not your employer but your personal network—so you’d better put a lot of effort into making it as extensive and as vital as possible.
Functional Chameleons
The best in customer care are functional chameleons, becoming conversant as product managers, marketers and salespeople to bring resolution to customers.
Lessons from the Woman Who Built Squarespace’s Customer Care Team.
We Hire The Best. Solid article about building better hiring processes. One of the takeaways: the later in a process you consider diversity the bigger the problem you face.
Maciej on advertising
Advertisers like to use moralizing language when their money starts to flow in the wrong direction. Tricking people into watching ads is good; being tricked into showing ads to automated traffic is evil.
College Calculus
“To be clear, the idea is not that there will be a big financial payoff to a liberal arts degree,” Cappelli writes. “It is that there is no guarantee of a payoff from very practical, work-based degrees either, yet that is all those degrees promise. For liberal arts, the claim is different and seems more accurate, that it will enrich your life and provide lessons that extend beyond any individual job. There are centuries of experience providing support for that notion.”
Turkle, Times, Technology, Trauma–Yet Again. Good critique of a recent New York Times essay and book review on the influence of technology in our lives. Related reading.