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Book Review: Managing Humans 27 Nov 2009 | 12:35 pm
Like many of the books I've read, Managing Humans is essentially a printed-out blog, and you can tell that pretty quickly by the terse, disjointed, and stream-of-consciousness hops from one chapter to...
Book Review: Crush It! 12 Nov 2009 | 03:12 am
I've never read a motivational self-help book, but I imagine this is what they are like. Gary compresses a lot of good content into a very small book, but there's a plethora of cheerleading. His core ...
Book Review: Free 21 Sep 2009 | 06:07 am
I downloaded Free on my Kindle because, well, it was free. I hadn't heard of the author before, nor any of his prior books, but I saw a promotional message somewhere - I don't even recall where - noti...
Book Review: CA$HVERTISING 26 Aug 2009 | 12:33 am
If you've read the book Predictably Irrational about the irrational decisions we humans make when it comes to buying stuff, CA$HVERTISING will show you how to exploit those quirks to maximize your pro...
We value your money, not your satisfaction. 29 Jul 2009 | 02:22 am
Warning, this is not a tech article. Today I'm going to rant about [stupid] business owners.The backstory: A couple years ago, there was a quaint little mom-and-pop coffee shop near my office where I ...
Book Review: Who Moved My Cheese? 27 Jul 2009 | 11:57 am
Who Moved My Cheese? is a very short book. The publisher went through great lengths to make it feel like a book, with nice thick hard covers and large type, but I think most readers would consider it ...
Book Review: Envisioning Information 15 May 2009 | 12:25 am
I had this book on my reading list because I'd heard DHH praise it a couple years back. Although I'm just a lowly software developer, I've always had a fascination with user interaction and interface ...
Oh yeah, I produce a podcast now! 11 May 2009 | 10:52 am
For some odd reason, it didn't dawn on my until now to pimp my podcast on my blog. It's called The Anachromystic Podcast and we've already got four episodes out. It's just me and my old friend Craig W...
A better progress meter for your (Rails) scripts 7 May 2009 | 02:03 am
As a follow-up to my post a couple weeks back on putting a progress meter in your long-running migrations, I've whipped up a more helpful and re-usable tool.I've called it simply "Progress" and here i...
A slightly-better podcast recording setup 2 May 2009 | 03:29 am
A few weeks back I posted about recording Skype calls on OS X using only freely available tools, and it worked out pretty well, but it had one annoying flaw: I could hear my own voice coming through t...
