Tag: productivity

• Strategy

  July 20, 2019

  I’ve spent 25 years thinking about what happens when organisations and services meet the internet. Someone doing due dilligence on a company I advise called me on that claim recently,… more ›

• Turn Slack messages into notes, to-dos and more with Zapier

  May 11, 2019

  The best way to streamline your everyday work with Slack is to tap into our App Directory. It’s home to hundreds of tools you can use right inside your workspace.… more ›

• Workism Is Making Americans Miserable

  February 27, 2019

  In his 1930 essay “Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren,” the economist John Maynard Keynes predicted a 15-hour workweek in the 21st century, creating the equivalent of a five-day weekend. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/02/religion-workism-making-americans-miserable/583441/ more ›

• All Things Sales! 16 Mini-Lessons for Startup Founders

  February 14, 2019

  As a former CEO and software engineer (Citrix, XenSource, VERITAS, etc. https://a16z.com/2018/09/02/sales-startups-technical-founders/ more ›

• The Cathedral and the Bazaar

  January 3, 2019

  Linux is subversive. Who would have thought even five years ago (1991) that a world-class operating system could coalesce as if by magic out of part-time hacking by several thousand… more ›

• Everything Breaks

  December 14, 2018

  Everything Breaks We’re going to play a really simple and really dumb game. I’ll explain the setup and the rules: The goal of this stupid and dumb game is to… more ›

• Reality has a surprising amount of detail

  November 24, 2018

  Reality has a surprising amount of detail My dad emigrated from Colombia to North America when he was 18 looking looking for a better life. For my brother and I… more ›

• The Cognitive Biases Tricking Your Brain

  October 31, 2018

  Science suggests we’re hardwired to delude ourselves. Can we do anything about it? I am staring at a photograph of myself that shows me 20 years older than I am… more ›

• ‘One Has This Feeling of Having Contributed to…

  May 1, 2018

  ‘One Has This Feeling of Having Contributed to Something That’s Gone Very Wrong’ » Over the last few months, Select All has interviewed more than a dozen prominent technology figures… more ›

• How To Improve Your Design Process With Data-Based…

  April 23, 2018

  How To Improve Your Design Process With Data-Based Personas » The first step in creating data-driven personas is similar to the typical persona creation process. Write down your team’s hypotheses… more ›