Archive for August, 2007

Commentary: Changing Jobs

Some of my friends have recently change job.  No big deal, happens all the time in Silicon Valley.   Not everyone blogs about it.  In the comments, one of my other friends, who happens to have also changed his job recently, posted a link to “inspiring corporate confidence“.  It’s a little hard to follow (like […]

The right job

Tickle.com is pretty cool in the fact that they have all of these psychological tests to see where you
Here’s a link to all of their Career Tests:

What is your right job?
At least this one says, I’m an engineer…

These are just a couple.  They’re fun, but just remember, that you make the decisions on your career […]

Links: MBA bashing

Two extra years of college yielding you a six-digit income at a name company where you are going to be changing the business world and retire with a golden parachute and drive off to your private jet in your convertible Ferrari.  I think that’s usually what people picture when they are thinking of going to […]

Link: A guide to hiring programmers

It’s always a good thing to read around and see what people are saying are good ways to (try to) hire people.  Professional columnists are one thing.  They often blur the line between what one should be doing as a hiring manager and as a candidate.  I put a some stock in blogs because it’s […]

Working Class Millionaires

Silicon Valley is full of them: People with very high net worth (compared to the rest of the country… and the world) but still work 12+ hours days.
Yet the same drive that earned so many of the engineers and entrepreneurs who live here their fortunes keeps them tied to the Valley, which resembles nothing so […]

The easy way out

Wired has a nice little rant about how the handheld calculator is basically the cause of a lot of problems.  The closing statement is an interesting comparison:
Speaking of things people don’t deserve, it’s pretty clear that the real fault for all this dumbing-down lies with Prometheus, the Titan from Greek mythology who gave fire to […]