1. North Pole, Inc. - take some time to peruse the beautifully designed products shipping from the North Pole this season, or read about the corporate scandals and political infighting that has plagued the famous company. It’s all very well done, courtesy of the folks at Brainstorm.
2. Speaking of the North Pole, this is [...]
Entries from December 2007
Happy Holidays Roundup
December 20th, 2007 · 1 Comment
Tags: Roundups
Link Roundup 2007/12/18
December 18th, 2007 · 1 Comment
No, I’m not turning this into a link blog. But out of all the web content I consume daily, I run across a handful of things each day that I have an opinion on and want to share, but not enough time or energy to compose a full post. So I’m trying something [...]
Tags: Roundups
Why it sucks to be an in-house programmer
December 17th, 2007 · 7 Comments
A couple weeks ago Joel Spolsky posted a great transcript of his talk to Yale computer science students. Among other things, he talks about why it sucks to work as a programmer at a company whose focus is not software:
You never get to do things the right way. You always have to do things [...]
Tags: Business
A struggling startup deconstructed
December 9th, 2007 · 1 Comment
I ran across a very interesting post by Philippe Chrun, who writes with much detail and honesty about his failing startup, mycarpoolstation.com:
I am quietly distancing myself from my pet project, my baby which I poured my heart and soul and mind into…. We invested 30,000 US$ of our own capital, excluding an estimated 50,000 US$ [...]
Tags: Business
