One of my co-workers (designers) coaches one of his daughter’s soccer teams during the springtime and it keeps him pretty busy. A couple weeks ago when the ‘big rain’ hit central Iowa, he was scrambling to get in contact with the kids’ parents to discuss practice and schedule makeup games.
Today I stumbled upon (yet [...]

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I’ve discussed the idea of finding, keeping, motivating, and retaining young technology knowledge workers before. The best advice I can give without going into a long post is look to Google. Why does Google get the best and the brightest? It’s the perks…
“The work day has just begun yet some Google Inc. employees are [...]

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Saw this Google Ad on Techdirt today…

And yes - it is a simple, old fashioned start page. At first I was intrigued by the advertisement’s blatancy but that was soon over shadowed by the concept - that being taking steps backwards for purposes of simplification and reflection.
The principles behind OfficialHomePage.org are the same that turned [...]

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I wonder when the Des Moines Register will adopt this attitude…
What attitude? Blaming the internet for failure, again. Guess what - you’ve had ample opportunity to adapt and you haven’t listened. All you had to do was divert eyeballs through a different medium.
Walter Hussman Jr writes in a WSJ column that free is a “disastrous [...]

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I’ve posted about my love of the cubicle before so I had to post this.
Anway - check out Conan visiting Intel…

UPDATE: YouTube had to remove the video due to NBC Copywright Violations… (lame). Anyway, I knew I could find it elswhere so here it is thanks to Clipster..

TJ found passed this on from Jeremy.
Tags: Intel, [...]

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