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by dworin 13y ago
It wasn't just infrastructure, it's in the attitude of the city. Someone once told me "in New York they build skyscrapers because they have to, in Chicago they build skyscrapers because they can."
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by dworin 13y ago
It's not about abundant capital - it's actually easier for American cities to leverage the bond market to raise capital now than it was in the 19th century. The bigger issue is labor and regulation. The people working to raise C
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by dworin 13y ago
It is asymmetrical in a way that disadvantages both parties. For every candidate thinking "I hope they give me a job" there as an interviewer thinking "I hope we can hire this guy." For every candidate hoping they don&
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by dworin 13y ago
This is a great point - the culture of a workplace has more to do with the culture of your team and the quality of your immediate management than it does with the organization. There are people in small startups who are miserable at work e
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by dworin 13y ago
The post is vague, but it sounds like you're trying to make an app that turns everyone in a large organization into good managers. I understand how you might try to organize the information, but how are you going to ensure that the in
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by dworin 13y ago
Self pick farms are in a different business - they sell people (usually families with kids) the opportunity to spend a day outside pretending to be a farmer, they aren't a substitute for agriculture. They're amusement parks, not
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by dworin 13y ago
"He read all the ‘right’ books on management and took the advice to heart: don’t get too chummy, shield your team from anything they don’t need to know, ask them to identify roadblocks to progress, reward them all equally." Thes
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by dworin 13y ago
That metaphor doesn't work for two reasons. First, over time a car has grown MORE complex, while the tools to create a website have grown LESS complex. At the same time, improved quality in engines, motor oil, and service technology has m
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by dworin 13y ago
This happens in every services industry, not just website development. A combination of new technology, experience, and the dispersion of knowledge drive down costs and margins. Nobody hires accountants to do their adding and subtracting,
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by dworin 13y ago
This advice is backwards. If you're so busy with the backlog, you should hire someone to work on the backlog and supervise them. If you're running the business, your job is finding work, then managing the work, then executing the work, in
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by dworin 14y ago
This is a rant against Michael Porter, his theories, and the practice of business strategy generally, but has nothing to do with why Monitor actually failed. Most of the rest of the industry is doing fairly well, especially since the end o
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by dworin 14y ago
Enough people have pointed out the importance of value pricing over hourly billing that I don't have anything to add there. But I will bring up a neglected point, which is that this formula assumes that all employees hours are equal, or at
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by dworin 14y ago
I agree with that - I think OneNote is one of the most underestimated pieces of software ever made.
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by dworin 14y ago
I'll be honest that 90% of it has to do with the user interface - it's not that LibreOffice can't do what I need to do, it's that it makes things that should be easy really hard. And considering the amount of time I spend in an office suit
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by dworin 14y ago
I don't think it has to do with familiarity at all - LibreOffice looks almost identical to what MS Office looked like prior to Office 2007, so it's definitely familiar, and if you look at 'percent of my life using a UI,' is even more famili
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by dworin 14y ago
I've actually tried to run a business on LibreOffice instead of MS Office, and it lasted about two days. If you're in a general business profession that relies on an office suite, not a developer or journalist where you're making simple un
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Mgmt Without Measurement Is Stupid, Measurement Without Management Is Worse(dworin.com)
1 points by dworin 14y ago|0 comments
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by dworin 14y ago
Switching to a 90 day planning cycle was one of the best management approaches I ever implemented, and helped me get more done in a smaller period than I ever had before. A few reasons: 1) Shifting from an annual planning process to a 90 d
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by dworin 14y ago
In most project management approaches, the difference between responsibility or accountability doesn't have to do with consequences, it has to do with separating out the person responsible for actually completing the work from the person wh
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by dworin 14y ago
I own my own company now, but I've worked at both companies with unlimited vacation and those with a set number of days. Allowing unlimited vacation but tracking sick days seems strange - how do you define the difference, and why do they c
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by dworin 14y ago
In nearly every case (California is always special, as are a few other states), you aren't required to have a vacation policy at all, or any company policy for that matter. One of the main reasons you have company policies is to make admin
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by dworin 14y ago
Like most things in business, the problem isn't with the policy, it's with management. If you create a culture that frowns upon employees taking vacation time, it won't matter if you give them unlimited vacation or only two weeks, nobody w
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by dworin 14y ago
That's exactly what he's accused of doing, although it's an anti-trust case, not collusion. This e-mail came out as evidence in a lawsuit where former employees allege that major tech companies agreed not to cold call each others employee
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by dworin 14y ago
What's the turnaround time for the Gold/Platinum transcription? What's the estimated accuracy for them?
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7 Ways to Disrupt Your Industry(fastcompany.com)
3 points by dworin 14y ago|0 comments
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by dworin 14y ago
Startup Trail - It's a game where you play as a startup founder, going through all the choices, decisions, and challenges along the way to learn more about founding and managing startups.
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by dworin 14y ago
Bummer - at least you can feel a little like you're here by taking our survey!