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Hiring product managers 7 Oct 2012 | 08:48 pm
One of the trickiest things to do is hire product managers in tech companies. Having put in place a successful product team at Unruly I thought I'd note down my thoughts on how I approached it. Defin...
The Viral Video eXchange 31 Aug 2012 | 11:05 pm
I made the Viral Video eXchange - http://www.vvx.io/ in my spare time from September 2011 until June 2012. It's a free to play stock market for viral videos. It was started as a project to get myself ...
Pivoting - before it was cool 14 Aug 2012 | 06:57 pm
Nice guest post on Steve Blank's blog: Massacre at IBM. For appetizers we slashed requirements. For soup we compressed schedule. For the main course we sliced up the configuration into bite-size pie...
The Premortem 15 May 2012 | 10:28 am
I've been reading Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, and one lovely little idea I couldn't let slip by was the idea of the premortem. It's simple. (And attributed to Gary Klein.) When the or...
Closing and launching a beyond MVP 8 May 2012 | 05:31 am
I'm in the last throws of a web app build that has been in progress since a first code commit on September 17th 2011. I've been building it entirely in my spare time while maintaining my usual job. Th...
The Imaginary Marching Band and Ad Runner 4 Nov 2011 | 03:45 am
I went to the NY Tech Meetup last night. One of the projects demoed was The Imaginary Marching Band. Built with Arduino chips and a few sensors stuck onto some white gloves, the tech allows the perfor...
More on a career in software development 30 Oct 2011 | 07:58 am
Patrick McKenzie has just written an incredible post for those in software engineering / wanting to be in it. Don’t Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice Seriously, get off this site ....
Chime.in is live 19 Oct 2011 | 08:56 am
Chime.in is live and the internets is talking. Now would be a good time for the bloggers among you to post sensationalist pieces with the following titles: '5 Reasons why Chime.in is the real Facebo...
Cory Doctorow, "Designing for Human Sensors, Not Human Barcodes" 28 Sep 2011 | 08:11 am
Fantastic speech from Cory Doctorow. Permalink | Leave a comment »
Getting a programming job 22 Feb 2011 | 05:20 am
I'm speaking at King's College London tonight for their Natural and Mathematical Sciences Careers Forum on the subject of helping to start a career in computer science. To help out I'm providing a bu...
