Today we are going to focus on the career. At The Codist, we are told a story about regret in a career. This is an interesting perspective of someone that has been a programmer for a very long time, had opportunities to really get into technical leadership, but never took a full leap into it.… Read More Geek Reading April 7, 2016 #1079
Leading our day is a post by Mark Suster on Bothsides of the Table. He talks about the resetting of the startup industry, which is interesting reading if you are trying to get your own startup funded. Gil Zilberfeld gives us an entertaining post about “estimate theater”. With a dialogue, he tries to get to… Read More Geek Reading February 9, 2016 #1038
Leading the day is a post on ReadThink by the HubSpot CEO. It is an excellent look at how to manage things when dealing with the switch between pure startup and scaling a business. Tom Blomfield gives us a slightly humorous look at when to join a startup. Its’ target may be humor but there… Read More Geek Reading January 15, 2016
Amazon leads the day with their move to bundle Showtime and Starz with Amazon Prime. Prime is slowly becoming a must-have option. Mozilla releases Focus for Firefox, their content blocking option for the open web. Job Tips For Geeks shows us some trends in the recruiting space based on various languages. As always, enjoy today’s… Read More Geek Reading December 9, 2015
Continuing what seems to be a constant barrage of security issues on various platforms, The Next Web reports on older versions of Android allowing Google to remotely bypass the passcode of 74% of Android devices. Matt Sencenbaugh has an excellent post on why startups seem to act like sociopaths. Sometimes the plans of the leaders of… Read More Geek Reading November 24, 2015
Leading today is a post by Valeria Maltoni on Conversation Agent. She really talks about asking the right questions, continuing to ask why. I have been known to annoy my coworkers with lots of questions about why code was written in a particular manner to solve a problem. For me it is more about understanding… Read More Geek Reading July 8, 2015
For a weekend, it was a fairly slow news cycle. Depression in startups and founders is a fairly common topic. One of the leaders of the discussion is Brad Feld. He writes about how holidays can be hard. His article was built upon the article from Business Insider about the dark side to startups. In… Read More Geek Reading July 6, 2015
Today we are going to focus on the business side of things. First, an excellent article from Heidi Roizen about building a unicorn but paying attention to the terms of funding. On the Agile Zone, Tim Wise talks about “the business” when dealing with agile projects. Ragawald has a great discussion about whether you know… Read More Geek Reading May 11, 2015
Seth Godin leads us off with a good post on the difference between commitment and technique. Obviously, this applies to almost all parts of life, you can have the proper technique, but without commitment, you will not be as successful as you could be. Techipedia, the home of Tamar Weinberg, has a similar topic today… Read More Geek Reading March 20, 2015
We start the week with some awesomeness from XKCD’s What If series, this one about snow removal. I figured that we have all had dreams of faster ways to get rid of the snow. Sam Altman gives us some excellent startup advice. Lastly, Think Faster tells us why rockstar developers don’t ask for help, or… Read More Geek Reading February 23, 2015
