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looks like i’m headed to paris
looks like i’m headed to paris sometime soon…should be interesting at the very least…
College isn’t everything
Posted by thak in business, jobs, philosophical on July 2, 2010
College isn’t everything >> How We Recruit – On Formal Credentials vs Experience-based Education | Zoho Blogs – http://goo.gl/HsNh
First work week in NYC
Back from my first work week in NYC. Ate way too much–both food and information. Enjoyed myself immensely, but it’s fantastic to be home.
Performance Reviews
Posted by thak in business, jobs, philosophical on April 20, 2010
Yes, Everyone Really Does Hate Performance Reviews | Yahoo! Finance. Great article. Corporate America is just pretty stinking ridiculous. No question. (Thanks, Gil.)
Corrupted Callings
Study Hacks » Corrupted Callings: The Subtle Difference Between Finding Your Life’s Work and Loving Your Life. Holy crap. This is an incredible article.
Absolutely mind-blowing…and makes more sense than about anything I’ve ever read in terms of career counseling…
Obsolete Occupations
Posted by thak in business, economics, jobs, philosophical on March 7, 2010
The Jobs Of Yesteryear: Obsolete Occupations : NPR. So when people complain about automation “taking their job”, just remember: it’s happened before, and it will continue to happen.
Was anyone really better off when you needed an elevator operator? Or a “pinboy”?
Come on, now.
IT train wreck
Posted by thak in business, jobs, philosophical on January 21, 2010
InfoWorld | Run IT as a business — why that’s a train wreck waiting to happen. Fantastic article. And very much why I’m not in IT any more. 
Programmer pay
Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity — The Endeavour. Absolutely true.
And just one more reason that the corporate IT ecosystem is hopelessly broken. The weenies in management have no idea what productivity is when it comes to programming.
The most effective and useful code I’ve ever written has taken me almost no time to produce. Any project that took me longer than a month to produce I considered a failure, because I wanted my users to have something to solve their problems now. That’s what computers are for, right? Instant gratification?
The Dangers of the Myth of Merit
Posted by thak in business, economics, government, jobs, philosophical, politics on November 19, 2009
The Freeman » The Dangers of the Myth of Merit. I couldn’t agree more.
I am rabidly pro-market, and even more rabidly anti-”corporate America”. Nothing enrages me more than the ridiculous amounts of collusion between government and big business.
But I’ll continue to take their money until my kids graduate.
Unchain our office computers
Posted by thak in business, jobs, philosophical, security on August 27, 2009
Why corporate IT should unchain our office computers | Slate Magazine. A-freaking-men. It’s hard to quantify–or even describe–the amount of lost productivity due to the chains inflicted on the corporate work force. How much creativity is squashed? How many time-saving innovations are just not possible due to ridiculous restrictions?
There are a lot of reasons I’m not in IT any more, and this is a major one. The inability to affect change in the organization after 15 years was just too much to take. I can do far more good as “just another engineer” than I could writing major systems. And because I’m not shackled by all of the inane paperwork, I can get stuff done 100x faster.