Work Consensus Kills How a culture of consensus kills innovation If you work in software, especially as a front end developer, you understand technology fatigue. For those of you who may be unfamiliar, technology fatigue is where you are fatigued by the pace at which technology progresses and/or the rate at which
Development Effective employment The true measure of a great job isn't in the perks. I want to take a minute to talk about something I call, "effective employment". What do I mean by "effective employment"? What does it mean to be "effectively employed"? I'll admit that effectiveness
Development Shhhh! Why knowledge workers are vulnerable to distraction Have you ever tried to count to 1000 in your head? Once you've learned the mechanics of counting it's not really that difficult but It does require concentration. Now, try that same scenario again but this time with people talking to you... Once
Development Where Interviews fall short Interviews are often terrible at assessing individual competency, so how can we make them better? Ah the interview. Many words have been written about their nature, difficulty and ultimately their shortcomings. It seems that almost every week I read a story on Hacker News pertaining to how this company does
Angular Angular 2.0 Angular 2.0: Why I am not impressed? So recently Angular made an announcement that they will be using Typescript as the mechanism for building the Angular source. A friend of mine asked me what I thought about this and Angular 2.0 in general. Here is what I told
