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BloJJ - About conference poster design and defense:
"My approach is different. Poster presentation, like conference presentation, belongs more to the area of dramatic arts than to marketing. It is information/entertainment, and that is the main thing you have to bear in mind when preparing for the session. Plus, while at a conference you have the full attention of your audience (shared, of course, with email, Facebook, plus the 10% that are simply speaking) in a poster session you have to first attract the attention of the people wandering around a hall shared with other 20 to 100 posters, then keep them there for the duration of the spiel and while you start a new one, and then, of course, convey the information you want to share with your poster. "
advice  academic-culture  meeting  poster-presentaitons  skills 
5 weeks ago by Vaguery
A List Apart: Articles: Artistic Distance
"While I’m sure that someone will disagree, these sites have proven that very few “professionals” have the ability or courage to provide a well-constructed analysis of someone else’s work (whether or not the evaluation was solicited). My opinion has nothing at all to do with either website, but rather with industry professionals’ inability to challenge, or fear of challenging, the status quo. Far too often, honesty is met with ridicule, shame, or outright rage from people hiding behind electronic media. As a community, if our goal is to continue raising the bar for design, we need to get to a place where objective discussion is welcomed, not scorned or drowned in obsequiousness. I would love to see discussion of basic design move past the superficial trendiness of emerging web technologies."
critique  collaboration  advice  graphic-design  not-just 
6 weeks ago by Vaguery
The Lean Publishing Manifesto - Leanpub
"A book or a startup is best created by 1 or 2 people, who are the authors or founders.

You can create a book with 3 or 4 authors, but essentially all the great books have been written by one author. In fact, if you have more than 4 authors, you're not even really producing a book–you're really producing an anthology of individual essays."
writing  publishing  lean  manifestos  advice 
october 2011 by Vaguery
Understanding the Git Workflow
"Think of branches in two categories: public and private.

Public branches are the authoritative history of the project. In a public branch, every commit should be succinct, atomic, and have a well documented commit message. It should be as linear as possible. It should be immutable. Public branches include Master and release branches.

A private branch is for yourself. It’s your scratch paper while working out a problem.

It’s safest to keep private branches local. If you do need to push one, maybe to synchronize your work and home computers, tell your teammates that the branch you pushed is private so they don’t base work off of it."
git  project-management  distributed-work  version-control  advice  design-patterns 
august 2011 by Vaguery
Mushrooms and Literature - Justin Erik Halldór Smith
"Nabokov famously told the story of the Cornell student who beseeched him to divulge the secret of great writing. 'Learn the names of plants', Nabokov is said to have said. He surely did not mean the Linnean names (though those can help to add an extra flair of erudition); he meant the Russian-English-French names that turn the things into repositories of human lore and values and fears."
names  generalism  nanohistory  mindfulness  advice  writing 
june 2011 by Vaguery
Growing need for data heads
"I've said it before, but if digging into data is your idea of fun, there's a whole mess of excitement and adventure headed your way. There are lots of opportunities already out there in marketing, journalism, tech, the Web, government, and pretty much everywhere you look. And more importantly, there are lots of opportunities that you can make for yourself. This is a great time for data heads."
data-science  data-mining  statistics  jobs  advice 
may 2011 by Vaguery
Taking the plunge | johnaugust.com
"You’ll be told it’s because it makes communicating your vision easier, and that’s true.  But there are two more important reasons.  First, if you know how to be a sound man, you know how to make the sound man’s job easier. This has the potential to make you very popular with sound men (or editors, or cinematographers, etc), something you’ll need when your only currency is good will.  Second, when you begin producing your own work, this renaissance approach to filmmaking will allow you to start before anyone else signs on.  Knowing you can finish in a pinch, if you have to, will lend you a confident relentlessness that makes others want to get involved."
generalism  learning-by-doing  advice 
may 2011 by Vaguery
James on Habit
"…Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day. That is, be systematically heroic in little unnecessary points, do every day or two something for no other reason than its difficulty, so that, when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test."
habit  psychology  sociology  William-James  advice  learning 
may 2011 by Vaguery
“There are some people who don’t wait.” Robert Krulwich on the future of journalism | Not Exactly Rocket Science | Discover Magazine
After they wrote, they tweeted and facebooked and flogged their blogs, and because they were good, and worked hard, within a year or two, magazines asked them to affiliate (on financial terms that were insulting), but they did that, and their blogs got an audience, and then they got magazine assignments, then agents, then book deals, and now, three, four years after they began, these folks, five or six of them, are beginning to break through. They are becoming not just science writers with jobs, they are becoming THE science writers, the ones people read, and look to… they’re going places. And they’re doing it on their own terms! In their own voice, they’re free to be themselves AND they’re paid for it!
science-writing  worklife  personal-brand  promotion  disintermediation-in-action  advice  culture-clash  via:nielsen 
may 2011 by Vaguery
The 8 Legal Steps to Creating a Startup
"While company filings and regulations may not be the most glamorous parts of your startup, they're absolutely critical to the success of your business and safety of your personal savings. Here's a quick rundown of the laws and regulations you need to consider when creating a startup. Of course, depending on your type of business, hiring a tax accountant or good attorney with specific experience in your industry can go a long way to helping you steer clear of trouble."
startup-culture-must-improve  advice  coscience 
august 2010 by Vaguery
Liz Keogh's blog » What not to test
"Work out which bits of the system you know least about. Create the scenarios and have conversations around those bits of the system. You don’t have to grow the system from the beginning – you can pick any point you like! Which bits of the system make you most uncomfortable? Which bits make your stakeholders most uncomfortable?"
agility  bdd  behavior-driven-design  best-practices  advice  software-development 
august 2010 by Vaguery
You're Cuking It Wrong – Elabs
"So where does this gulf of experiences come from, why is cucumber loved by some and hated by others. At the risk of over-generalisation and mischaracterisation I recently came up with a theory: the cucumber detractors are not using cuke the way it was intended."
behavior-driven-design  bdd  cucumber  antipatterns  advice  problem-I-sometimes-have 
august 2010 by Vaguery
The Top Idea in Your Mind
"I've found there are two types of thoughts especially worth avoiding—thoughts like the Nile Perch in the way they push out more interesting ideas. One I've already mentioned: thoughts about money. Getting money is almost by definition an attention sink. The other is disputes. These too are engaging in the wrong way: they have the same velcro-like shape as genuinely interesting ideas, but without the substance. So avoid disputes if you want to get real work done."
advice  entrepreneurship  creativity  cognitive-psychology  good-advice 
july 2010 by Vaguery
Ruby Gem Management with RVM and Bundler
"When I started learning Ruby, managing gems was a huge problem to the point I would make fun of it. Now I use RVM which helps you install multiple versions of ruby on one computer. Not only does it do that, but it makes gem management a breeze as well! Beyond RVM, Rails 3 provides us with bundler, which allows you to install gems based on a list of dependancies automatically. Very slick.

Here I will outline how to install and configure RVM as well as manage your gems with RVM and the Rails 3 bundler."
ruby  rvm  gem  system-administration  software-development  advice  tutorial 
june 2010 by Vaguery
Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows: Clean Install Windows 7 with Upgrade Media
BLOCK POPUPS BEFORE VISITING

"It was the final unanswered question about Windows 7. But now, thanks to numerous reader reports, my own hands-on experience, and a briefing with the team at Microsoft responsible for this technology, I think we have some answers. Sadly, Microsoft is still making it difficult to clean install Windows 7 with Upgrade media, as it did with Windows Vista. But fear not, there is some good news. While you can't simply use Upgrade media to do a clean install of Windows 7 on a new or previously formatted PC, the workarounds this time are easier than ever. And that's what this article is all about: Revealing the secrets to clean-installing Windows 7 with Upgrade media."
Windows  advice  installation  upgrading 
june 2010 by Vaguery
5 Steps to Successful Contrarian Investing -- Seeking Alpha
'An experienced investment manager said it well: “The best time to buy stocks is when you hear the term, ‘stock market,’ and you want to throw up.”'
investment  contrarianism  advice  finance 
june 2010 by Vaguery
How To Communicate with your Investors between Board Meetings
"Think of it this way: if having your development team work this way through sprints, why not board notes? Meeting every 6-8 weeks with no interim communication is like the waterfall software development process!"
agility  venture-capital  startups  startup-culture-must-die  entrepreneurship  advice  communication  risk-management 
may 2010 by Vaguery
Kill Your To-Do List | Zen Habits
"And what of these lists? They’re long, you never get to the end of them, and half the time the tasks on the list never get done. While it feels good to check items off the list, it feels horrible having items that never get checked off. This is all useless spending of mental energy, because none of it gets you anywhere.
The only thing that matters is the actual doing."
getting-shit-done  todo  time-management  habits  productivity  worklife  advice 
april 2010 by Vaguery
Seth's Blog: Secrets of the biggest selling launch ever
"Are their tactics are reserved for giant consumer fads? I don't think so. In fact, they work even better for smaller gigs and more focused markets."
marketing  business-culture  advice  learning-by-watching 
april 2010 by Vaguery
Beware Those S&P 500 Benchmarks -- Seeking Alpha
"But if anybody starts telling you now how much they’ve beaten the S&P 500 by over the past 10 years, then before investing with them it’s definitely worth asking to see their marketing materials in the intervening years. It’s pretty important that they always used the S&P 500, and not just when it made them look good. Otherwise, Richard Ferri is right that the comparison is downright misleading, and not the kind of behavior one would expect from a fiduciary."
benchmarking  investment  financial-planning  comparison  advice  marketing 
march 2010 by Vaguery
Building a Better Teacher - Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
"Another problem I've often had (as recently as last semester!) is that my goals for students--what they're expected to be able to do when the semester is over--are often not well defined. When we don't have a sense of where we're going, our 15-week courses often fall apart somewhere around week 7 or so. But this should not be such an issue in high school."
pedagogy  teaching  academia  learning-by-doing  advice  citation-etiquette 
march 2010 by Vaguery
Dumping on your readers « It Doesn't Have To Be Right…
"Yes, make it part of the narrative. But even then, you’re often still explaining something which doesn’t really need explaining. Does it matter how the hyperspace drive works if all it needs to do is to get the protagonist from A to B? Too much exposition in science fiction stories has nothing to do with the story – it’s the author showing off their setting. For many readers, this is required. It’s immersion."
via:io9  writing  exposition  advice  novels  science-fiction  aesthetic-norms  narrative 
february 2010 by Vaguery
4 Simple Principles of Getting to Completion | Zen Habits
"1. Keep the scope as simple as possible.… 2. Practice ‘Good Enough’.… 3. Kill extra features.… 4. Make it public, quick."
project-management  planning  advice  software-development  openness  productivity  simplicity 
february 2010 by Vaguery
Avoiding the 5 Most Common Mistakes in Using Blogs with Students -- Campus Technology
"I've used blogs in my classes for five years with university graduate students. I've found them to be extremely helpful in certain circumstances but only when there is clarity for students in their use. Students who object to the inclusion of blogs in a course are usually objecting to what they perceive will be just one more task on top of a myriad of others or simply some busy work that will not benefit their learning. Older students can also reject the notion of "publication" that is inherent with blogging. Each of these objections can be addressed by an effective and innovative instructor by careful planning and skillful management. There are, however, several common mistakes that should be avoided when using blogs in instruction. I have made all of these mistakes and have learned how to address each one proactively."
blogging  academic-culture  pedagogy  education  edtech  advice  seems-to-apply-to-blogging-generally-too 
january 2010 by Vaguery
23 Popular DSLR Lenses
"As I scan the list of popular DSLRs that have been purchased it’s clear that Canon and Nikon lenses have dominated the list once again. However instead of listing them in a mixed list in order of popularity I thought it’d be more useful to list them by manufacturer. Afterall – if you’ve got a Canon DSLR you’re not going to be interested in a Nikon or Pentax lens."
photography  SLR  digital-photography  advice  lenses  gadgets  recommendations 
december 2009 by Vaguery
Step Organisation - cucumber - GitHub
"How do you name step files? What to put in each step? What not to put in steps? Here are some guidelines that will lead to better scenarios. If you are new to steps and the general syntax, please read Feature Introduction first."
Cucumber  BDD  behavior-driven-design  design-patterns  antipatterns  advice 
september 2009 by Vaguery
I Will Not Read Your Fucking Script - New York News - Runnin' Scared
Also? I will not work on your fucking website for equity, nor even listen to your pitch.
entrepreneurship-as-pathology  social-norms  social-isolation  valuation  ideas  innovation  obligations  advice  no-success-starts-with-failure-to-understand-context 
september 2009 by Vaguery
Rands In Repose: Your People
"When I’m talking about Your People, I am not thinking of your best friend. Sure, your best friend might be Your People, but I’m talking about a larger population who aren’t necessarily your friends and who isn’t your family. These are a strange lot of people you’ve discovered in a motley array of places because you were searching for them."
via:mitten  social-networks  community  self-definition  advice  networking 
september 2009 by Vaguery
Five concrete steps to improving the news at Newsless.org
"You know that excellent explanatory piece you produced four weeks ago as a sidebar to a big news story on your topic? Rescue it from the archives and put it in a nice, prominent place online. Link to it with a clear, compelling headline.

Pull together a page online with links to several such explanatory pieces (from your site and elsewhere), along with good, useful digests of all of them. Make it so that users don’t have to visit every link to get a picture of the story, but have places to go when they want to know more. Set a recurring reminder to check in on this page once a week. Create a shortened URL for this page and repeat it every time you cover this topic."
news  reporting  advice  MSM  newspapers  disintermediation  journalism  editing  how-to  blogging 
september 2009 by Vaguery
FAQ: LaTeX on OSX - Adam Lindsay
"And, I wouldn't be true to myself if I didn't plump for the ConTeXt macro package as an alternative to LaTeX. If you want to write up a structured document, but it's not for a conference proceedings or journal, I would say that it's more worth putting the time in to learn the basics of ConTeXt than, say, the Memoir class in LaTeX. ConTeXt's way of separating form from content feels much cleaner than LaTeX, and I feel like the learning curve for ConTeXt has a fairly constant and gentle slope, rather than a hockey-stick-like bend for when you want to customise a Class file."
TeX  LaTeX  ConTeXt  typesetting  MacOS  documents  document-design  software  advice 
august 2009 by Vaguery
Why Leveraged ETFs Aren’t for Everyone -- Seeking Alpha
"Unfortunately, the average investor does not understand the math involved to know what the rebalance is doing to their capital, and they don’t know that since these funds rebalance daily, they need to rebalance almost daily, as well.
The bottom line is that these are good tools and have lots of advantages, but investors really need to understand them before diving in head first."
investing  trading  ETFs  admonition  advice  risk-management 
may 2009 by Vaguery
Agile Ajax » Rails Testing Frequently Asked Questions — The Non-Code Version » Pathfinder Development
"Things to keep in mind.

No matter where you start, start with one simple test. One assertion, if you can manage it.
Write the code to make that test pass
Then refactor -- this part is critical, this is where the creative design is with a TDD process.
Then write the next test.
In Rails, you'll often start in the controller then realize that code needs to be written in the model (or vice-versa). Write a separate test for the model -- testing models from the controller makes it hard to test all the model logic.
It's okay to plan the tests in advance, but you should only work on one test at a time. (Sometimes I'll write the series of tests, then comment out all but one)"
test-driven-development  TDD  testing  Rails  Ruby  programming-culture  advice  getting-hired 
may 2009 by Vaguery
Beginnerr's Guide To Becoming A Producer - Channel 4 Film feature
"Producers are assholes... They know all the tricks of the trade but they don't know the trade itself... They don't believe in anything" James Woods

"Collaboration, that's the word producers use. That means, don't forget to kiss ass from beginning to end." Sam Shepard
movie-studio  producers  business-model  business-culture  cinema  advice 
march 2009 by Vaguery
Ad Hoc Data Analysis From The Unix Command Line - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks
"Once upon a time, I was working with a colleague who needed to do some quick data analysis to get a handle on the scope of a problem. He was considering importing the data into a database or writing a program to parse and summarize that data. Either of these options would have taken hours at least, and possibly days. I wrote this on his whiteboard:
Your friends: cat, find, grep, wc, cut, sort, uniq
These simple commands can be combined to quickly answer the kinds of questions for which most people would turn to a database, if only the data were already in a database. You can quickly (often in seconds) form and test hypotheses about virtually any record oriented data source."
programming  Unix  command-line  tools  data-analysis  advice 
march 2009 by Vaguery
Non-Hierarchical Management (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)
"Spending your days doing grunt work for people who are smarter than you. Obsessing over their mood and personal problems. Turning down all opportunities to take credit or get attention so you can continue to work as a servant. Does this really sound like a job you want?

Probably not. Few people are cut out for it. It’s really hard. It’s incredibly stressful. It’s not at all glamorous.

But it’s vitally important. A team without a manager is doomed to be an ineffective team. So if you can’t do it, find somebody else."
management  advice  business-culture  administration  entrepreneurship  collaboration  hierarchy  cultural-norms 
february 2009 by Vaguery
The Number One Dream Killer: Doing What Works | Zen Habits
"The second thing you need to do is push your uncertainty threshold.
We all have a certain limit, or threshold, for the amount of uncertainty we can handle. For some of us, we have such a low limit, we’re afraid of even simple things, like talking to a stranger. We can’t predict what the person we’ll say, so we can’t tolerate the uncertainty. This is on the lower end of the spectrum. The higher end of the scale might be not being able to quit your job and follow your passion. There’s no way you can foresee what will happen, so you let uncertainty keep you from taking action."
advice  lifestyle  worklife  management  self-help  self-image 
february 2009 by Vaguery
How’s that workin’ for ya? « Is there no sin in it?
"It’s difficult when confronting a student who admits he doesn’t like the feedback he gets from papers but refuses to admit there might be anything wrong with his writing not to scream, as Ramsay does, “You ungrateful piece of dogshit! I’m trying to help you!” Anyone who is friends with a teacher will know that we bitterly complain about student arrogance in exact proportion with how much we care about helping them. If you’re putting in countless office hours and even more writing emails and comments on papers, and a student keeps coming back to say, “How can I get an A?” without even trying to take any of the advice you give, you know how Ramsay feels. Sometimes, baffled, Ramsay will shout, “You bloody asked me to fucking come here!” If my feedback and advice is worthless to you, why ask for it? You clearly enjoy getting C’s."
change  cultural-norms  advice  pedagogy  software-development-vs-programming 
february 2009 by Vaguery
Head Pigeon FAQ (Johnny Logic)
"If some live pigeons are still found eight to 12 hours after treatment, but are moving more slowly than before, do not retreat. Comb dead and remaining live pigeons out of the hair. The medicine sometimes takes longer to kill the pigeon."
humor  advice  pigeons 
january 2009 by Vaguery
How builders can be better at business - Fine Homebuilding Article
"After nearly eight years of national prosperity in the construction industry, there continues to be one prominent shortage: time. The only way to gain on the situation is to use time better. To that end, I offer the following suggestions. Think of this list as a web of strategies-one is not more important than any other. However, if you are going to be successful with No. 10, you'll need to demonstrate competence in Nos. 1-9."
building  construction  contractor  sprawlette  business  advice 
january 2009 by Vaguery
How to Save Newspapers - The Daily Beast
"What has happened with the Internet so far is that the suppliers of hardware, software, and transmission (search engines and aggregators) have built business models that effectively shut out revenue streams for the creators of the information that is being delivered. What has become absolutely clear in 2008 is that this new model for delivering information is a debilitating blow to the creation of quality news content. The companies making money from the Internet—Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Amazon, and so on—are entitled to the riches they’ve amassed from their ingenuity and entrepreneurial skill. But as a society, we’ve got to figure out how news gathering and information distribution will be paid for from now on."
short-sighted  but-not-wrong  business-model  media  MSM  news  journalism  futurism  advice 
december 2008 by Vaguery
Only Collect « a historian’s craft
"What this all takes is patience — more patience, sometimes, than I am good at. I am impatient to know things, and impatient for things to make sense more quickly; and the discipline (ah, that apt term) just doesn’t work that way. A colleague of mine told me that he’s been Only Collecting for over ten years, and can now knock out a 3000 word paper in under two days, simply because all his material is already at hand; it exists in the stuff he’s picked up in his intellectual infancy and adolescence, which at the time he didn’t know how to use, and perhaps didn’t even know was important."
generalism  advice  research  education  sense-of-self  inspiration  collecting  practice  context  I-do-this 
december 2008 by Vaguery
Angular Unconformities: Marriage, gay or otherwise
will try
politics  conservatism  gay-marriage  civil-rights  prejudice  table-turning  advice  amusing 
november 2008 by Vaguery
Code: Flickr Developer Blog » Lessons Learned while Building an iPhone Site
iPhone  iPgibw  web-design  programming  development  reference  advice 
november 2008 by Vaguery
ongoing · Anger Management
"For a living, I’m an IT generalist and a Web specialist. For doing this, I get paid reasonably well and thus I have some savings to take care of. My conclusion: it is neither fair, nor is it sane, for me to hand them over to people who get paid ten times and up what I do. So I’m not gonna. If that means I have to deal my nest-egg out among real estate, gold, and cash under the mattress, so be it.

So if anyone wants to help me with my money, I’m going to insist on complete transparency as to how they’re getting paid and how much they’re getting paid, and if it’s really a lot more than me, then I’ll know I can’t afford their services.

Which should have been obvious a long time ago. If a lot of other people come to similar conclusions, maybe we can bring some sanity to the money business."
via:judell  financial-crisis  advice  compensation  capitalism  economic-crisis  crime 
november 2008 by Vaguery
Heather Ion, David Brin, Harold M. Koenig talk about resiliency in a time of financial turmoil | Tom Munnecke's Eclectica
via:tsuomela  resiliency  local  community  sustainability  communitarianism  social-engineering  cultural-norms  advice 
october 2008 by Vaguery
How to pick an accountant for your online business | fortuitous
business  advice  accounting  accountant  finance  startups  reference  entrepreneurship  tips  freelance 
october 2008 by Vaguery
kung fu grippe - How to Blog
Find your obsession. Every day...
blogging  advice  actually-useful  presentation  voice  writing  presentations  creativity 
october 2008 by Vaguery
Entrepreneurs… To band together or go it alone? « The Joe Blog
"My opinion, and its a strong one, is to encourage entrepreneurs to band together and help each other. Lets face it, great minds think alike. When you get a bunch of great minds together in one place, it can be like watching the best fireworks you’ve ever seen. Be warned though, ALWAYS know your scope and what your needs are. Only give what you get and make sure there is a value to everything that you do."
zero-sum  collaboration  entrepreneurs  advice  capitalism  red-in-tooth-and-claw  social-capital  attention 
august 2008 by Vaguery
PdF2008 Talks: Doug Rushkoff on the New Renaissance
Please, entrepreneurial startuppy convocations of the movers-and-shakers of local human-scale community-supported life with programming and Your Very Important Book: watch and hear. Watch. Hear.
cultural-norms  social-engineering  society  power  government  local  human-scale  personal-brand  authors  writing  advice  call-to-action  community 
july 2008 by Vaguery
Summation: The Art of the Job Offer: Encourage Candidates to Turn You Down
sanity  hiring  interviews  employment  business-culture  advice 
june 2008 by Vaguery
Design Patterns for Hacker Space
via:bkerr  coworking  cultural-norms  business-plan  hacking  space  planning  advice 
june 2008 by Vaguery
Brainstorm: Why Major in Painting? - Chronicle.com
True for nearly every discipline beside "painting" as well. Including the ones where one may be "more successful". I know a lot of useless computer scientists, for example.
pedagogy  academia  worklife  learning-by-doing  learning  suitedness  advice 
june 2008 by Vaguery
Coding Horror: The Ultimate Code Kata
advice  blogging  career  worklife  development  education  engineering  focus  learning  philosophy  practice  productivity  training  kata 
june 2008 by Vaguery
Bonkers Institute: Medicine Show
pharmaceutical  advertising  medicine  prescription  prescriptivism  gallery  bad  advice 
june 2008 by Vaguery
Skelliewag.org
conversation  blogging  advice  personal-brand 
june 2008 by Vaguery
Nassim Nicholas Taleb: the prophet of boom and doom
"Go to parties. You can’t even start to know what you may find on the envelope of serendipity"
advice  interview  serendipity  innovation  extreme-values  prediction  agility 
june 2008 by Vaguery
EFF: Bloggers' FAQ: Section 230 Protections
blogging  legal  rights  lawyers  advice  summary  free-speech  SLAPP  lawsuits  Chilling-Effect 
june 2008 by Vaguery
Kevin Kelly -- New Rules for the New Economy
Almost every one is truly useful.
community  business-culture  cultural-norms  innovation  social-engineering  advice 
may 2008 by Vaguery
Why You Should Think Seriously About Being Less Efficient | Slow Leadership
"Effectiveness uses time to avoid doing only what you have done before, in favor of working out how to do something better."
agility  advice  GTD  productivity  success  worklife 
may 2008 by Vaguery
/Message: How I Roll: The Ten Day Rule And Other Consultingology
Very close to my own model
consulting  terms  business-culture  advice 
may 2008 by Vaguery
Open Space World » Finishing with Impact and Energy
open-space  meeting  organization  management  collaboration  advice 
may 2008 by Vaguery
Alan’s Blogometer
"You’ll learn to get answers by asking other people. You’ll learn to obtain new information by exchanging information with other people. This, of course, puts in active communication with people, instead of being a passive consumer of feeds.

Feeds
advice  RSS  social-norms  sociology  culture  politeness  etiquette  productivity  feeds 
april 2008 by Vaguery
Technology Review: Blogs: Ed Boyden's blog: How to Think
via:mitten  via:vielmetti  advice  learning-by-doing  self-help  cognition  worklife  planning  goals  GTD  knowledge  learning  management  tea 
march 2008 by Vaguery
Wondermark by David Malki ! - An Illustrated Jocularity.
Apropos of dinner
marketing  advice  comix 
february 2008 by Vaguery
Machine Learning (Theory) » The Meaning of Confidence
statistics  advice  summary  research  experiment  explanation  writing  probability 
february 2008 by Vaguery
Meet Merb
PeepCode  Ruby  Merb  book  rtfm  advice  introduction 
february 2008 by Vaguery
immaculate heart college art department rules (tecznotes)
via: boingboing
advice  creativity  education  learning-by-doing  learning  pedagogy  philosophy  quotes 
february 2008 by Vaguery
Warren Ellis » My Guide To Gardening
gardening  Warren-Ellis  advice  metaphor  call-to-action  sensibility 
january 2008 by Vaguery
Digital History Hacks: The Programming Historian
history  programming  tools  scholarship  academia  make  learning-by-doing  advice 
january 2008 by Vaguery
How to Buy Losers: Tricking Yourself with Cash-Covered Puts | Alternative Energy Stocks
trading  stocks  self-control  advice  risk  psychology 
january 2008 by Vaguery
Overcoming Bias: Artificial Addition
"When the basic problem is your ignorance, clever strategies for bypassing your ignorance lead to shooting yourself in the foot"
analogy  computer-science  artificial-intelligence  AI  learning  philosophy  humor  advice 
november 2007 by Vaguery
Everything I Know About Presentations, I Learned in Theatre School
presentation  speaking  advice  communication  presentations  public-speaking 
november 2007 by Vaguery
J. LeRoy's Evolving Web: Atomic Agility 2
A bit rough, but, "Information that stops at a given individual helps no one. The Agile Manager should design social media systems to churn any information received during a project."
agility  agile-management  management  teams  advice  business-culture 
september 2007 by Vaguery
How to Change the World: How to Write a Business Plan: Ten Questions with Tim Berry
business  business-plan  entrepreneurs  startups  advice  funding 
august 2007 by Vaguery
Startupping - A Community for Internet Entrepreneurs
via:rosefirerising  entrepreneurs  entrepreneurship  online  community  startups  social-networks  advice 
july 2007 by Vaguery
Macintosh Management: Best Practices, Tips and Tricks - MacResearch
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july 2007 by Vaguery
blog.pmarca.com: How to hire the best people you've ever worked with
advice  business  business-culture  hiring  performance  teams  startups  interviewing  development  intelligence 
july 2007 by Vaguery
Science Musings by Chet Raymo
"When the mind fixates on absolute discontinuities, mischief is often in the offing..."
heuristics  biology  learning  classification  advice  Richard-Dawkins  gray-area 
july 2007 by Vaguery
In Pursuit of Mysteries » Advice from Authors
"Don’t become a well-rounded person. Well rounded people are smooth and dull. Become a thoroughly spiky person. Grow spikes from every angle. Stick in their throats like a pufferfish."
Bruce-Sterling  writing  advice  personal-brand 
july 2007 by Vaguery
Open Reading Frame
"Give a damn. Your students are not fungible data-production units..."
research  worklife  pedagogy  graduate-school  life-sciences  advice  institutional-design  social-norms 
july 2007 by Vaguery
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