The hard thing about soft skills
The hard thing about the ‘soft’ skills of courtesy and consideration is that they’re only partly skills. They’re far more about our attitude: how much… Read More »The hard thing about soft skills
generosity
Creative Commons resources – open source literacy webinar
Note: Links to resources are at the bottom. The footnotes are worth reading. On Thursday I attended ‘Creative Commons Basics’, a webinar hosted by the… Read More »Creative Commons resources – open source literacy webinar
The soft option
Your desire to be generous to others is a great motivator to excellence: if you’re serious about ensuring that the externalities of your project are… Read More »The soft option
Externalities
We’re familiar with the externalities of industrial production and consumption. They’re fairly predictable, and often visible. Even air pollution, the silent killer, is usually visible… Read More »Externalities
Contact
Next time you read an article, listen to a podcast, watch a program that you like – why don’t you get in touch with whoever… Read More »Contact
Conflicting values
If you keep butting up against the same problem with a colleague – a problem you think you’ve fixed, but that comes up repeatedly in… Read More »Conflicting values
Just in time (2): “I’ll just…”
There’s another kind of just in time. This is the kind when you lie to yourself: “I’ll just squeeze this extra thing in, and I’ll… Read More »Just in time (2): “I’ll just…”
Just in time (1)
There’s a good sort of just in time. We plan something, know what needs to happen and how, know what we need to do it… Read More »Just in time (1)
Byproduct
Tobi Lütke (@tobi) is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Shopify. In 2004, Tobi began building software to launch an online snowboard store called Snowdevil. It… Read More »Byproduct
Debt to society
If you want to talk about our debt to society – the question of what we owe the other people who share our culture, and… Read More »Debt to society