Victor Loux Bookmarks Tag: business

76 bookmarks tagged “business

How to manage up with your boss — Quartz

qz.com/964501/how-to-manage-up-with-your-boss/
I once had a boss who would send me a series of two-word emails throughout the day, each one bearing the same message: “Call me.” Each time I received one of these emails, the hairs on the back of my neck would stiffen and my stomach would churn violently. This reaction made no sense—I was...

Out of Office Hours

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Creating dialog between newcomers and people working in the tech industry.

Why There Will Never Be Another RedHat: The Economics Of Open Source | TechCrunch

techcrunch.com/2014/02/13/please-dont-tell-me-you-want-to-be-the-next-red-hat/
Open source software powers the world’s technology. In the past decade, there has been an inexorable adoption of open source in most aspects of computing...

Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neil | PenguinRandomHouse.com

penguinrandomhouse.com/books/241363/weapons-of-math-destruction-by-cathy-oneil/9780553418811/
Longlisted for the National Book Award New York Times Bestseller A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern...

Software Contracting and Legal Matters | Sealed Abstract

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It takes a couple of bad clients to bulletproof your contracts. If you're new at software contracting, you may know enough to know that you need a contract,

Work Habits at Apple – Ole Begemann

oleb.net/blog/2014/09/work-habits-at-apple/
And I said it’s a lot like working in a nuclear power plant, but you don’t get one of those protective suits. It’s a lot of radiation and you either learn to survive it or you die. ’Cause they’re not mean people, they’re not spiteful people, they’re not trying to trip you up, They’re just very intense and, you know, things emanate from them, right?