June 25th 2008 by angol in Self Improvement, Startups, rePosts, work/career
Excellent Article,
We succumb to the startup itch because of the promise of getting rich but most of the time we fail to understand that (I got this from a Paul Graham essay) people who succeeded from their startups were paid on account of their productivity and output. I distinctly remember my aha moment when I [...]
June 17th 2008 by angol in Self Improvement, work/career
More evidence of how crucial a choice our friends/seat mates/acquittance’s are to the decisions we can make. If this is true and my gut points me to the truth of this, we may be fast entering an age of great decision making. Why because usenet/googlegroups/yahoogroups or other conversational/ web 2.0 social interactivity interconnection technology is [...]
June 2nd 2008 by angol in Career, Outlook, Self Improvement, personal AnGoL, work/career
If you don’t have a great working environment quit, quit now!
from NYT:
In addition to being brilliant, Dr. Gray was an iconoclast. Speaker after speaker fondly told stories that reflected his disdain for bureaucracy and his independence. Shankar Sastry, dean of the college of engineering at UC Berkeley, noted that when organizers were planning the Saturday [...]
March 28th 2008 by angol in personal AnGoL, work/career
Follow Up to: Good People Dont Need Resumes (my take)
The fact that in our country the resume is still very important for a lot of jobs even if they barely look at it, or that good people are still required to do this mind numbing task is a good opening for people to do things [...]
March 27th 2008 by angol in personal AnGoL, work/career
followup to got the job:
Seth Godin has a post on Why Bother Having a Resume while people from HedgeHogLabs has their own take based on their experience with their own lead developers: Good Developers Dont Need Resumes
from seth godin’s Why Bother Having a Resume:
Not just for my little internship, but in general. Great people shouldn’t [...]