Advice to myself 8 years ago
A correspondent asked: If you don’t mind me asking, what advice would you give to a 28 year-old Avdi? My response, for what it’s worth: I think about this kind…
I don’t care about your corporate perks
As my regular readers know, I’ve been a freelancer for around half a year now. Lately I’ve been thinking about what it would take to entice me back into full-time…
Turn on, tune in, drop out
Seth Godin: Why do colleges send millions (!) of undifferentiated pieces of junk mail to high school students […]? Biggest reason: So the schools can reject more applicants. The more…
There Ain’t No Such Thing As a Free Dinner
Recently I was contacted by a recruiter for a prominent West Coast startup. As I was scanning over the “about our company” blurb provided by the recruiter, my eyes stopped…
Damien Katz: CouchDB and Me
One of the most powerful talks delivered at RubyFringe is now available online: Damien Katz: CouchDB and Me This was one of those “soft” talks that really made RubyFringe special….