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    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Bruce and I were talking about product roadmaps, which describe features the team commits to ship over the next few releases. For most organizations, everything revolves around the roadmap.

Marketing uses the roadmap to plan the stories they’ll tell to entice new customers (and get existing ones to upgrade). Customer support uses it to ensure reps are trained to help with new features. And, of course, product development uses it to allocate resources and to speed future development.

It was while we were discussing roadmaps that Bruce shattered my world with a single word: Themes. Themes are an alternative for features. Instead of promising to build a specific feature, the team commits to solving a specific customer problem.]]></description>
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    <title>We’re Taking a Break from Slack. Here’s Why | Motherboard</title>
    <dc:date>2016-05-19T12:22:29+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The other recurring issue with Slack is that it’s just baseline distracting. People are always talking, often directly to you, and they usually expect an immediate response. Writers and editors need unbroken blocks of time to work. Slack makes that difficult.

This week, Motherboard is going cold turkey. That’s right—we’re cutting off Slack. Writers will talk directly to their editors. We’ll talk via face-to-face conversation, the phone, Google Hangouts, and Gchat. (Why is Gchat allowed?, you might ask. Because Gchat is optimized for one-on-one conversations, and doesn’t have persistent rooms.)

We’re hoping that cutting off Slack will give reporters a chance to refocus on writing stories and encourage more in-depth conversations with editors.]]></description>
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    <title>10 Ways To Run Your Business More Like Taylor Swift</title>
    <dc:date>2015-10-29T21:51:36+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I just witnessed a 25 year old woman entertain a stadium of 56,000 people in Atlanta, Ga. I've never been a Taylor Swift critic, but last night I moved from casual fan to raving fan. For those of you familiar with the Net Promoter Score, I moved from a 7 to a 10! Before you make the mistake of dismissing Tay's (we're BFFs now!) business acumen, her current tour numbers are now crossing $200 Million, and that's just box office revenue, not merchandise! The tour only started in May. She's the only female act in the world able to sell out a stadium, and she's doing 31 of them! 

I had the amazing opportunity to give my daughters, and enjoy for myself, an up close and personal look at the 1989 Tour machine including a meet and greet with Taylor, a backstage tour with Taylor's mom, Andrea, and amazing seats. I was able to pull it off as a surprise for my 9 and 14 year old daughters too. (Yes, I'm officially the Dad of the Year!)  I'm going to try and dig into some practical ways I saw Taylor intentionally guiding her business to better serve her fans and build customer loyalty. Isn't that what we all want?]]></description>
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    <title>The Cool Girl Trap: Or, Why Sexism in Tech Isn’t Going Away. — Absurdist — Medium</title>
    <dc:date>2015-10-13T12:23:57+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The ‘Cool Girl’ trap is, while not the only factor, essentially one of the reasons sexism, racism, and other –isms are so pervasive in such a homogenized industry. Of the eight people that worked in that office, I was the only woman, the only Hispanic (or any non-white person), and the youngest in the office. This small sample reflects much of the industry itself — women only make up about 22% of developers. Caucasians still make up an overwhelming 79%.
When you’re surrounded by only one particular group, and they constantly remind you that you’re the outlier, you struggle to find footing in that group. You struggle to be accepted, so you sweep things under the rug. You put off articulating your real feelings because, what’s the harm in it? But you work so hard trying to get in to the inner circle that you find a hard time getting out without risking everything.
But, ultimately, you still lose everything. And you realize that you’re part of the problem. You’re part of the reason why the industry is so slow to change in its attitudes towards women and minorities. Because you never speak up.
But what choice do you have? Being the Cool Girl is how you survive.
Play the game, or lose. But you’ll probably lose anyway.]]></description>
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    <title>Whole Brain Creativity — Shawn Blanc</title>
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    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Each of us are dominant in one of these four quadrants. You, dear reader, have some strength and some weakness of all four quadrants of learning and thinking style, but one of them is your most dominant. Do you mostly thrive on: Facts and logic? Form and Safety? Feelings and relationships? Or future ideas and concepts?

However, for us to do our best creative work — work that matters — we have to operate out of all four quadrants.

Operating out of all four quadrants looks different for everyone because everyone has one or two quadrants that they are strongest in and then a few quadrants they are weaker in.

If you are a strong “Yellow” thinker, then having visionary creative solutions is probably a natural part of your everyday life. But you may have trouble when it comes time to execute on your ideas.]]></description>
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    <title>Cushion - Peace of mind for freelancers</title>
    <dc:date>2015-07-08T09:53:42+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Cushion will help you manage your unpredictable schedule and bring a calm to your unsteady income.]]></description>
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    <title>How successful people work less—and get more done - Quartz</title>
    <dc:date>2015-04-20T21:25:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://qz.com/386166/how-successful-people-work-less-and-get-more-done/</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The study found that productivity per hour declines sharply when the workweek exceeds 50 hours, and productivity drops off so much after 55 hours that there’s no point in working any more. That’s right, people who work as much as 70 hours (or more) per week actually get the same amount done as people who work 55 hours.
Successful people know the importance of shifting gears on the weekend to relaxing and rejuvenating activities. Like Spencer, they use their weekends to create a better week ahead.
This is easier said than done, so here’s some help. The following list contains 10 things that successful people do to find balance on the weekend and to come into work at 110% on Monday morning.]]></description>
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    <title>How Successful People Stay Calm — Medium</title>
    <dc:date>2015-04-16T21:55:22+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Research from the University of California, Berkeley, reveals an upside to experiencing moderate levels of stress. But it also reinforces how important it is to keep stress under control. The study, led by post-doctoral fellow Elizabeth Kirby, found that the onset of stress entices the brain into growing new cells responsible for improved memory. However, this effect is only seen when stress is intermittent. As soon as the stress continues beyond a few moments into a prolonged state, it suppresses the brain’s ability to develop new cells.

“I think intermittent stressful events are probably what keeps the brain more alert, and you perform better when you are alert,” Kirby says. For animals, intermittent stress is the bulk of what they experience, in the form of physical threats in their immediate environment. Long ago, this was also the case for humans. As the human brain evolved and increased in complexity, we’ve developed the ability to worry and perseverate on events, which creates frequent experiences of prolonged stress.

Besides increasing your risk of heart disease, depression, and obesity, stress decreases your cognitive performance. Fortunately, though, unless a lion is chasing you, the bulk of your stress is subjective and under your control. Top performers have well-honed coping strategies that they employ under stressful circumstances. This lowers their stress levels regardless of what’s happening in their environment, ensuring that the stress they experience is intermittent and not prolonged.

While I’ve run across numerous effective strategies that successful people employ when faced with stress, what follows are ten of the best. Some of these strategies may seem obvious, but the real challenge lies in recognizing when you need to use them and having the wherewithal to actually do so in spite of your stress.]]></description>
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    <title>To Raise Productivity, Let More Employees Work from Home - HBR</title>
    <dc:date>2015-04-14T20:33:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://hbr.org/2014/01/to-raise-productivity-let-more-employees-work-from-home</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The study: Nicholas Bloom and graduate student James Liang, who is also a cofounder of the Chinese travel website Ctrip, gave the staff at Ctrip’s call center the opportunity to volunteer to work from home for nine months. Half the volunteers were allowed to telecommute; the rest remained in the office as a control group. Survey responses and performance data collected at the conclusion of the study revealed that, in comparison with the employees who came into the office, the at-home workers were not only happier and less likely to quit but also more productive.]]></description>
<dc:subject>work remote productivity business workplace</dc:subject>
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    <title>The Moral Bucket List - NYTimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2015-04-13T08:46:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/12/opinion/sunday/david-brooks-the-moral-bucket-list.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A few years ago I realized that I wanted to be a bit more like those people. I realized that if I wanted to do that I was going to have to work harder to save my own soul. I was going to have to have the sort of moral adventures that produce that kind of goodness. I was going to have to be better at balancing my life.

It occurred to me that there were two sets of virtues, the résumé virtues and the eulogy virtues. The résumé virtues are the skills you bring to the marketplace. The eulogy virtues are the ones that are talked about at your funeral — whether you were kind, brave, honest or faithful. Were you capable of deep love?]]></description>
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    <title>The full-stack employee — Medium</title>
    <dc:date>2015-04-12T10:05:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://medium.com/@chrismessina/the-full-stack-employee-ed0db089f0a1</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[What is a full stack employee?

Just as there are full-stack engineers and full-stack startups, the full-stack employee has a powerful combination of skills that make them incredibly valuable. They are adept at navigating the rapidly evolving and shifting technological landscape. They make intuitive decisions amidst information-abundance, where sparse facts mingle loosely with data-drenched opinions. Full stack employees are capable of speaking design lingo, know that using Comic Sans is criminal, and are adept at making mocks in Keynote, Sketch, or Skitch (if it comes to that). And they know the difference between UI and UX.

They can cross the aisle to talk to engineering and can make sense of algorithms, programming, and instinctively understand that scaling the backend isn’t the same as scaling the frontend. Though they may not code for production, they understand what GitHub and StackOverflow are for, and can brute force a copy-paste script to perform basic analysis on a CSV file. If they must.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>work business workplace</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Aetles/b:bedea6476d4d/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/at-some-start-ups-fridays-are-so-casual-everyone-can-stay-home/2015/02/06/31e8407e-9d1c-11e4-96cc-e858eba91ced_story.html">
    <title>At some start-ups, Friday is so casual that it’s not even a workday - The Washington Post</title>
    <dc:date>2015-02-08T20:32:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/at-some-start-ups-fridays-are-so-casual-everyone-can-stay-home/2015/02/06/31e8407e-9d1c-11e4-96cc-e858eba91ced_story.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Carson, who is originally from Colorado, started his first company in 2004 in the U.K., thinking it would give him more freedom with his time. But he soon found himself working that same intense pace until his wife asked him why he was working more and making less. She suggested taking Fridays off.

“At first, I thought, ‘This is insane; We’ve got way too much work to do,’ ” Carson said. “But the more I thought about it, really, running your own company is about creating your own universe. So why not create a universe you’d want to live in? That’s when the idea went from stupid and crazy to, maybe we should actually do that. So we tried it one week, and never looked back.”]]></description>
<dc:subject>life work culture workplace business family health</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Aetles/b:b3d51e13a4da/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://blog.fogcreek.com/maintaining-company-culture-in-a-distributed-world-part-1/">
    <title>Maintaining Company Culture in a Distributed World – Part 1 - Fog Creek Blog</title>
    <dc:date>2015-02-03T22:49:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://blog.fogcreek.com/maintaining-company-culture-in-a-distributed-world-part-1/</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[You can imagine that, as a company famous for these values (not to mention the opportunity to work with really smart co-workers and take part in our other awesome benefits), it was never hard to find talent. Every time we posted a listing, or Joel tweeted “We’re hiring!” we’d find ourselves with an absolute flood of resumes – we weren’t complaining!

Nearly fifteen years later, however, the landscape has changed. While we still meet more talented candidates than we can reasonably hire, we’re no longer the only player in the great-place-to-work game, and competition for hiring the smartest developers has become significantly more fierce across industries and locations. Massive changes in the landscape may create panic in some companies. At Fog Creek, however, we live to solve challenging problems. Besides, we’ve overcome way worse!

And so we’ve taken this opportunity to grow and adapt to our new, more competitive environment. Our first and biggest initiative: allowing remote employees to join our ranks.]]></description>
<dc:subject>business workplace work office remote</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Aetles/b:b0d6f3149ceb/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2015/01/why-we-still-believe-in-private-offices/">
    <title>Why We (Still) Believe in Private Offices « Blog – Stack Exchange</title>
    <dc:date>2015-01-17T10:51:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2015/01/why-we-still-believe-in-private-offices/</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[There was a time where it seemed like we barely even needed to talk about this: Joel had won the argument, the Internet agreed that private offices were the future, and only incompetent management (or a tight budget) was still putting developers in cubicle farms. A glorious future lay before us.


The original Fog Creek Bionic Office, way back in ye olde 2003. We 
didn’t have iPhones, but at least the offices had doors.

Unfortunately, that’s not quite how it turned out. Open plans have been surprisingly hard to kill, despite research showing that they’re unpopular, decrease employee satisfaction, and hurt productivity. The response so far seems to have been to double down and make it, if anything, worse: cubicles are now decidedly un-cool so no-wall open offices are all the rage, and Facebook brags that its new building will be the largest open floor plan in the world, consisting of a single, ten acre open room.

The result is that today Stack Exchange is decidedly lonely if not quite alone in offering private offices to our developers (at least the half who work in the office; the other half work remotely). Suddenly we’re the ones who look a bit old-fashioned: isn’t that the old-school Microsoft approach? Doesn’t it make us less creative? How can we stay fast and agile if people keep disappearing into offices to do work?

We’re pretty sure it doesn’t do any of these things, and in fact we believe it has a lot to do with how we think about work and our developers.]]></description>
<dc:subject>management work office workplace business</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Aetles/b:6a551a5a60c9/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/12/30/google-got-it-wrong-the-open-office-trend-is-destroying-the-workplace/?tid=sm_fb">
    <title>Google got it wrong. The open-office trend is destroying the workplace. - The Washington Post</title>
    <dc:date>2014-12-30T21:42:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/12/30/google-got-it-wrong-the-open-office-trend-is-destroying-the-workplace/?tid=sm_fb</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[These new floor plans are ideal for maximizing a company’s space while minimizing costs. Bosses love the ability to keep a closer eye on their employees, ensuring clandestine porn-watching, constant social media-browsing and unlimited personal cellphone use isn’t occupying billing hours. But employers are getting a false sense of improved productivity. A 2013 study found that many workers in open offices are frustrated by distractions that lead to poorer work performance. Nearly half of the surveyed workers in open offices said the lack of sound privacy was a significant problem for them and more than 30 percent complained about the lack of visual privacy. Meanwhile, “ease of interaction” with colleagues — the problem that open offices profess to fix — was cited as a problem by fewer than 10 percent of workers in any type of office setting. In fact, those with private offices were least likely to identify their ability to communicate with colleagues as an issue. In a previous study, researchers concluded that “the loss of productivity due to noise distraction … was doubled in open-plan offices compared to private offices.”]]></description>
<dc:subject>health work workplace business</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Aetles/b:ac830d95d505/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.timelyapp.com/">
    <title>Timely – Scheduling and Time Tracking, Simultaneously</title>
    <dc:date>2014-12-29T23:41:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.timelyapp.com/</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Scheduling and time tracking, simultaneously
The time tracking app to end time tracking.]]></description>
<dc:subject>apps tracking timetracking work business</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Aetles/b:55089b6d5079/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Aetles/t:timetracking"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Aetles/t:work"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://toni.org/2010/03/08/5-reasons-why-your-company-should-be-distributed/">
    <title>5 reasons why your company should be distributed | Toni.org</title>
    <dc:date>2014-12-29T23:17:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://toni.org/2010/03/08/5-reasons-why-your-company-should-be-distributed/</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I’ve noticed a new trend in Silicon Valley. More and more startups are beginning life as distributed companies, and investors and partners are starting to accept it as normal. Our company Automattic is distributed, and I’m ready to sing the praises of running a business in this way. BTW, I think distributed (“evenly spread throughout an area”) is a better description than the more commonly used virtual (“nearly real or simulated to be real”) for a company that has people working from all over the place instead of a centralized office. In Automattic’s case, we currently have over 50 employees spread across 12 US states and 10 countries.

Here are my top 5 reasons why you should consider the distributed model for your company:]]></description>
<dc:subject>management startup work business</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Aetles/b:1e1bee4db4bb/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://knote.com/2014/11/10/why-germans-work-fewer-hours-but-produce-more-a-study-in-culture/">
    <title>Why Germans Work Fewer Hours But Produce More: A Study In Culture | Knote</title>
    <dc:date>2014-11-16T09:52:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://knote.com/2014/11/10/why-germans-work-fewer-hours-but-produce-more-a-study-in-culture/</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[When many Americans think of Germany, images of WWII soldiers and Hitler often come to mind. But what many people don’t realize is that Germany is the industrial powerhouse of Europe, and is a leading manufacturer of goods for export to developing Asian nations. We don’t hear about the superiority of German engineering in Volkswagen commercials for nothing!

The economic engine of the EU, Germany single-handedly saved the Eurozone from collapse in 2012. At the same time, German workers enjoy unparalleled worker protections and shorter working hours than most of their global counterparts. How can a country that works an average of 35 hours per week (with an average 24 paid vacation days to boot) maintain such a high level of productivity?]]></description>
<dc:subject>work economics productivity germany</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Aetles/b:fe46b95f6292/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Aetles/t:productivity"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://qz.com/269294/caffeine-is-actually-slowing-you-down/">
    <title>Caffeine is actually slowing you down - Quartz</title>
    <dc:date>2014-09-23T13:10:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://qz.com/269294/caffeine-is-actually-slowing-you-down/</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Here’s why you’ll want to: caffeine has a six-hour half-life, which means it takes a full 24 hours to work its way out of your system. Have a cup of joe at 8am, and you’ll still have 25% of the caffeine in your body at 8pm. Anything you drink after noon will still be at 50% strength at bedtime. Any caffeine in your bloodstream—with the negative effects increasing with the dose—makes it harder to fall asleep.
When you do finally fall asleep, the worst is yet to come. Caffeine disrupts the quality of your sleep by reducing rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, the deep sleep when your body recuperates and processes emotions. When caffeine disrupts your sleep, you wake up the next day with an emotional handicap. You’re naturally going to be inclined to grab a cup of coffee or an energy drink to try to make yourself feel better. The caffeine produces surges of adrenaline, which further your emotional handicap. Caffeine and lack of sleep leave you feeling tired in the afternoon, so you drink more caffeine, which leaves even more of it in your bloodstream at bedtime. Caffeine very quickly creates a vicious cycle.]]></description>
<dc:subject>health coffee caffeine sleep work body</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Aetles/b:45635f25f0ab/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Aetles/t:body"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.eleganthack.com/5-quick-changes-that-will-make-meetings-suck-less/">
    <title>5 Quick Changes That Will Make Meetings Suck Less</title>
    <dc:date>2013-09-17T09:48:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.eleganthack.com/5-quick-changes-that-will-make-meetings-suck-less/</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Meetings don’t have to be bad. They are where you get together with your crew and figure out how to make your company awesome. When I moved from maker to manager, I discovered meetings is where I get things done. I needed to master them, or they would master me. Here are five tricks I’ve discovered from my long painful life of meetings]]></description>
<dc:subject>work meetings</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Aetles/b:2c6ca46345d6/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://vimeo.com/44124657">
    <title>All work and all play on Vimeo</title>
    <dc:date>2012-11-21T11:40:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://vimeo.com/44124657</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This video is the outcome of several studies developed by Box1824. It is a nonprofit or commercial project.
Box1824 is a Brazilian research company that specializes in behavioral sciences and consumer trends.]]></description>
<dc:subject>work generations millenials</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Aetles/b:aed834ce35ed/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/10/todont.html">
    <title>Coding Horror: Todon't</title>
    <dc:date>2012-10-05T08:03:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/10/todont.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[All my to-do lists started out as innocuous tools to assist me in my life, but slowly transformed, each and every time, into thankless, soul-draining exercises in reductionism. My to-do list was killing me. Adam Wozniak nails it:

Lists give the illusion of progress.
Lists give the illusion of accomplishment.
Lists make you feel guilty for not achieving these things.
Lists make you feel guilty for continually delaying certain items.
Lists make you feel guilty for not doing things you don't want to be doing anyway.
Lists make you prioritize the wrong things.
Lists are inefficient. (Think of what you could be doing with all the time you spend maintaining your lists!)
Lists suck the enjoyment out of activities, making most things feel like an obligation.
Lists don't actually make you more organized long term.
Lists can close you off to spontaneity and exploration of things you didn't plan for. (Let's face it, it's impossible to really plan some things in life.)]]></description>
<dc:subject>productivity work life</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Aetles/b:5fff9ffdf611/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/04/workers_take_off_your_headphon.html">
    <title>Workers, Take Off Your Headphones - Anne Kreamer - Harvard Business Review</title>
    <dc:date>2012-05-01T13:30:14+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/04/workers_take_off_your_headphon.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The image of legions of headphone-wearing employees sitting silently at their workstations, oblivious to the flesh-and-blood community around them but actively engaged with a virtual world, seems like a dystopian future envisioned in movies like Minority Report. But that future is here. A Wall Street Journal piece on the "officeless office" had a sidebar with six new rules for office etiquette which included #1, no sneaking up; #5, limit chit-chat; and #6 use headphones. That may increase a certain kind of productivity, but at what cost?

Management professors Sigal Barsade at Wharton and Hakan Ozcelik at Cal State Sacramento are among the pioneers in studying how employee isolation correlates with organizational outcomes. In a recent study, they found "because they feel more estranged and less connected to coworkers, lonelier employees will be more likely to experience a lack of belongingness at work, thus decreasing their affective commitment to their organizations." Something to think about before you decide to limit social chit-chat or put those headphones back on.]]></description>
<dc:subject>productivity business work workplace office</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Aetles/b:1a36d4db75fa/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://newcdn.flamehaus.com/Valve_Handbook_LowRes.pdf">
    <title>Valve - Handbook for new empoyees</title>
    <dc:date>2012-04-25T09:15:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://newcdn.flamehaus.com/Valve_Handbook_LowRes.pdf</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Very nice handbook from Valve. ]]></description>
<dc:subject>business work workplace</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Aetles/b:e79bafe69478/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Aetles/t:work"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.dodgycoder.net/2012/03/every-software-project-ive-worked-on.html">
    <title>Dodgy Coder: Every software project I’ve worked on has used the &quot;Spanish Theory&quot; of project management, and its likely yours have too</title>
    <dc:date>2012-03-05T09:09:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.dodgycoder.net/2012/03/every-software-project-ive-worked-on.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The "Spanish Theory" says that management's job is to extract the maximum resources (= developer effort)  from the smallest amount of money (= developer salary). In practice what this often means for the developer is unpaid overtime (also known as "crunch time"), something very familiar to game developers, and also common in traditional software development, as the project nears its deadline. But those unpaid hours are actually costing you, the developer, because you can't get them back. You've sacrificed time in your personal life with your family and instead have chosen to work on the company's project - something of large value has been sacrificed for something of lesser value. If this imbalance continues past a reasonable level and unpaid overtime becomes the norm, then many developers will become dissatisfied and leave the company, increasing the company's staff turnover (churn) rate.]]></description>
<dc:subject>business management work</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Aetles/b:a66ad36345bd/</dc:identifier>
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    <title>Get Rid of the Performance Review! - WSJ.com</title>
    <dc:date>2012-02-23T21:35:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122426318874844933.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[You can call me "dense," you can call me "iconoclastic," but I see nothing constructive about an annual pay and performance review. It's a mainstream practice that has baffled me for years.

To my way of thinking, a one-side-accountable, boss-administered review is little more than a dysfunctional pretense. It's a negative to corporate performance, an obstacle to straight-talk relationships, and a prime cause of low morale at work. Even the mere knowledge that such an event will take place damages daily communications and teamwork.]]></description>
<dc:subject>management performance productivity work</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Aetles/b:5ae5dc406219/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3106-all-or-something">
    <title>All or something - (37signals)</title>
    <dc:date>2012-02-12T21:50:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3106-all-or-something</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The problem is that most “exciting new company” lore is intermingled with that of Startup Culture™. This means it’s hard to find your identity when it doesn’t match the latest company write-up of How Those Crazy Kids Turned VC Millions Into Billions!!!

Most people will look at that and say that’s not me. I don’t have 110% to give. I have a family, I have a mortgage, I have other interests. Where’s my place in the startup world if all I have to give is 60%? What can putting in part-time give?

The good news is much more than you think. The marginal value of the last hour put into a business idea is usually much less than the first. The world is full of ideas that can be executed with 10 to 20 hours per week, let alone 40. The number of projects that are truly impossible unless you put in 80 or 120 hours per week are vanishingly small by comparison.

This is of course nothing new. We’ve been playing this bongo drum for years. But every time I see people crumble and quit from the crunch-mode pressure cooker, I think what a shame, it didn’t have to be like that. It’s the same when I read yet another story about someone who won the startup lottery, and the stereotypical startup role model is glorified and cemented again.]]></description>
<dc:subject>business startup work life</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Aetles/b:74820e523bbb/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://pandodaily.com/2012/02/05/good-dad-good-entrepreneur-good-husband/">
    <title>Good Dad, Good Entrepreneur, Good Husband | PandoDaily</title>
    <dc:date>2012-02-05T20:29:09+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://pandodaily.com/2012/02/05/good-dad-good-entrepreneur-good-husband/</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[At this point in my life, I feel strongly that my three most important jobs are being a good dad, a good entrepreneur, and a good husband. Over the past year, I’ve found that it’s incredibly difficult to excel at all three simultaneously. Perhaps, for people better than I, it’s an easy task. I’m not a member of that club.]]></description>
<dc:subject>family parenting business work marriage</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Aetles/b:0ce31ee28151/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Aetles/t:parenting"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://edudemic.com/2012/01/age-distraction/">
    <title>How To Focus In The Age of Distraction | Edudemic</title>
    <dc:date>2012-01-16T07:48:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://edudemic.com/2012/01/age-distraction/</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[What do you do when you have to study? Do you find a cozy nook, cuddle up with a book or tablet, and concentrate? What about checking your e-mail? Answering your phone? Talking to friends? It’s not easy to concentrate these days.

With distractions like super awesome blogs (Edudemic FTW) to great educational apps and more, it’s important to figure out how to get your work done. This chart by Learning Fundamentals may look a bit chaotic but is extremely helpful. Click image to enlarge!]]></description>
<dc:subject>life workday distractions work</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Aetles/b:43dba70edb95/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Aetles/t:workday"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Aetles/t:distractions"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://theoatmeal.com/comics/working_home">
    <title>Why working at home is both awesome and horrible - The Oatmeal</title>
    <dc:date>2011-11-22T20:53:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://theoatmeal.com/comics/working_home</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><dc:subject>comic comics humor work</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Aetles/b:ef2f3dae09c2/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Aetles/t:comics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Aetles/t:humor"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://blog.silktide.com/2011/07/why-we-gave-up-web-design-after-10-successful-years/">
    <title>Why we gave up web design after 10 successful years</title>
    <dc:date>2011-07-16T00:22:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://blog.silktide.com/2011/07/why-we-gave-up-web-design-after-10-successful-years/</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A decade ago I started a web design company. We grew and grew, and after ten years of hard work, I’ve finally been able to get rid of it.

Don’t get me wrong – we were successful, had fun and did good work. At our peak we had over 200 clients and 15 full time staff, making us the largest such company in our city. We’ve worked on great projects for some big name clients and we even made some money too.

Little by little however, the years ate away at my soul. This year we finally left it all behind and moved onto our own products, and I’ve never been happier.

So this is why.


]]></description>
<dc:subject>business webdesign work</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Aetles/b:2d8b5341695b/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Aetles/t:webdesign"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/05/the-death-march-the-problem-of-crunch-time-in-game-development.ars">
    <title>The death march: the problem of crunch time in game development</title>
    <dc:date>2011-05-27T20:03:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/05/the-death-march-the-problem-of-crunch-time-in-game-development.ars</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[ou work hard at your job, and you don't always get to go home right when the clock strikes five, either. So why should you take time out of your day to sympathize with game developers? After all, they're adults. If they don't like their situation they can move on, right?

Well, the problem is that it's just not a very effective way to manage a project, and often it's the quality of the games that suffer. This is not a new revelation; as far back as 1909 studies have shown that the 40-hour work week actually provides more output over a long period of time than when employees work longer hours.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>development hr work</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Aetles/b:cdbdf0c97f11/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.yammer.com/about/product">
    <title>Yammer : Product</title>
    <dc:date>2011-01-25T13:22:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.yammer.com/about/product</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[What Is Yammer?

The Enterprise Social Network
Yammer is revolutionizing internal corporate communications by bringing together all of a company’s employees inside a private and secure enterprise social network. Although Yammer is as easy to use as consumer products like Facebook or Twitter, its enterprise-grade software is built from the ground up to drive business objectives.

Yammer enables users to communicate, collaborate, and share more easily and efficiently than ever before. It reduces the need for meetings, increases communication across silos, surfaces pockets of expertise and connects remote workers.]]></description>
<dc:subject>work organization</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Aetles/b:cbcc408ba802/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Aetles/t:organization"/>
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