Counterpoint.

Point.

How can you apply Getting Real-ish ideas inside a big company? Here’s an idea: Go rogue. Pick something and do it under the radar. Create something in a few weeks that normally takes a few months. Do something in a way that works better than the status quo (or shows the promise of working better), Then you won’t need to convince anyone with words — the results will speak for themselves.

Rands on being done.

matewatch simply checks what TextMate documents you're editing and records the intervals of time that those documents are frontmost in TextMate.

37 signals on a four day work week, and poisoning morale with urgency.

Michael Lopp on Apple's design process.

Airline employees are fed up, too — with pay cuts, increased workloads and management’s miserly ways, which leave workers to explain to often-enraged passengers why flying has become such a miserable experience.

I find myself revisiting this Rands post for a number of reasons.

"When your boss learns of the fuck-up, you shouldn't be worried whether there's an odd metallic taste in his mouth, you should worry about who he's about to turn into."

"That's why a web designer's first job is to educate the people who hold the purse strings."

Great stuff from Michael Wade.

"No one wastes time searching for a purpose at Marissa Mayer's meetings—even five-minute gatherings must have a clear agenda"