Monthly Archives: July 2013

I stumbled upon this bit of wisdom in Team Geek: A Software Developers Guide to Working Well with Others, and it resonated.  It comes from Google engineer Chade-Meng Tan: Do the right thing, wait to get fired. New Google employees … Continue reading →

If you haven’t seen Frans De Waal’s TED talk on Moral behavior in animals you should.  One of the best parts is the Capuchin monkey fairness experiment video, where we see that capuchin monkeys – like people – aren’t rational (in the … Continue reading →

I recently finished Nate Silver’s The Signal and the Noise, and frankly I’m disappointed.  There were surprisingly few insights to be found in the 450-odd pages; I only highlighted two passages – an all-time low – and remarkable as I … Continue reading →

Interesting perspective on the eternal build vs buy dilemma by the folks at Github (in Inc article): “Our finance people should have their own developers to automate the things that finance people do,” says Preston-Werner. “People shouldn’t be responsible for what we … Continue reading →

Jack Welsh makes the case that managers should expect to bat .750 or worse on hiring. Look, hiring great people is brutally hard. New managers are lucky to get it right half the time. And even executives with decades of … Continue reading →