Below are three traits I’ve noticed all great resumes exhibit. This is not an exhaustive list and applies to the for-profit and non-profit sectors. Academia, art/music, and other fields likely exhibit other dynamics. I’m hoping to be helpful by sharing some tips I haven’t seen mentioned before.

One of the popular myths of higher education is that professors are sadists who live to inflict psychological trauma on undergraduates. Perhaps you believe that we pick students at random and then schedule all our assignments in such a way as to make those students’ lives as difficult as possible. The older I get and the longer I do this, the more I recognize that we (the professors) need to be more transparent about our philosophies of evaluation. How does this work? Let’s clarify a few things.

Creating a great landing page (given time) is not all about being a great copywriter or designer. It’s also a function of being a great tester.

Do you have an idea for a website, online business, or application, but need a programmer to turn that idea into reality?

Normal words that would be part of the content of a tweet anyway SHOULD NOT be hashed.

Here's how I turned a relatively cheap yet powerful home theater PC into a DIY Boxee Box for my HDTV.

Most people misread the WSJ piece as "email is dying". But email isn't dying, it's being complemented by new modes of communication. And despite Paul Graham's warning about "lists of N things", here's my list of 7 things to contribute to the social network updates vs. email debate.

That self-defeating behavior coined the phrase "Streisand effect," illustrated by an axiom from John Gilmore, one of the pioneers of the Internet, that: "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.