For Managers Checklist: Four Questions You Should Ask Yourself Before Hosting a Meeting Meetings cost lots of money. For proof, let's done some quick math to calculate a baseline cost. First, let's assume that every employee operates by the 2000 hours/year standard. This means everyone works 40 hours a week for 50 weeks –don't forget the 2-week vacation. Using FYI.levels as
Crypto Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO): What's Next? A Look at What is a DAO, and why is it a key pillar in the current crypto/web3 movement. If you're an investor, read. If you're an entrepreneur, read.
For Managers 11 Proven Ways To Get Along Better With EVERYONE 11 proven ways to get along with everyone.
For Managers Should I Write a Tutorial Whenever I am consulting, one of the first things I do is start collecting information from staff and writing it down. Sometimes I'll share that information via a company-sponsored intranet. Other times, I'll create a Notion account. In specific dire scenarios, I'll create Microsoft Word docs and place them in
For Managers Load Testing Deep Dive How engineers can stress test apps, new features, or experiments prior to production launch.
For Managers 6 Modes of Learning (School of One) Everyone has a preferred style of learning. Learn more about which modality works best for you.
For Managers 5 Experiences that Lead to Promotion If you are a new or existing manager looking for ways to earn a promotion, learn to look for these five types of business problems.
For Managers Google Tag Manager Tips and Tricks Recipes on tracking user behavior through Google Tag Manager.
AWS What is Big Data? A few basic questions and answers on big data from a software engineer and product manager.
For Managers Should I Do This? I was watching a video from Dan Applebaum and his response to the question "Should I do this?" caught my attention. The interesting part is how he explains that although the question seems like a reasonable one to ask ourselves, it actually reveals little flaw in our human psyche. So,
For Managers AWS Elemental Amazon acquired a company called Elemental [https://techcrunch.com/2015/09/03/amazon-acquires-elemental-technologies-for-a-reported-500-million-in-cash/] back in 2015 and has now released a suite of products to help broadcasters (big and small) distribute and syndicate video online. Think of Elemental as Amazon's in-house solution to Adobe's defunct Flash Media Server [https://aws.
For Managers How Web Development Has Changed My professional journey of what it's been like to code since 1997.
For Managers Calculating startup value How to calculate sweat equity amongst co-founders in a clean and simple way.
For Managers Organizing My Product Development Lifecycle Every time I start a new project, I find myself following this process. Discovery Discovery - This pretty much means research. Research about the customers we want to serve, the message we want to convey (editorially and visually), the brand we want to build, the product we want to launch
For Managers The Malcolm Gladwell myth This story below is interesting because it makes you wonder if you really need 10,000 hours to get great at something or you if just need to be obsessive about a subject. Yes, this story is anecdotal but it's still worth considering. Here's a good quote from this article.
For Developers Sources of inspiration for developers If you area a software developer looking for your next gig, here area few sources for inspiration. I've organized this list into two main categories: paid and unpaid. The thinking behind this is that some developers would prefer to get paid while they learn about a particular technology or industry,
For Managers Where to find free fonts Let's be real, Google Fonts is amazing but they're not the end-all be-all. When you're looking for more, try these services below. Free * Google Fonts [https://fonts.google.com/] is an industry workhorse. If you're looking for web-ready fonts, this is probably your best resource. * Adobe Typekit [https://typekit.com/
Case Study Moodles Real-time MIDI Composer Deep Dive Moodles, a first-of-its-kind musical instrument app for kids to compose music without the banality of classes. Built using Swift, AudioKit, and Firebase.
Music Industry What is ISRC? ISRC stands for International Standard Recording Code [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Recording_Code] is pretty much like the audio equivalent of a GS1 US [https://www.gs1us.org/] for barcodes and product identification. According to GS1 US: > GS1 standards allow you to easily identify, manage, and share
For Developers Easiest way to install Chrome on Windows I generally dread any time I have to create a new instance of Windows and Internet Explorer. Why? Because it's just not easy. For example, here is what you see the first time you start IE. Problem Screen 1 IE asks you to configure your security settings. Screen 2 IE
For Managers How to Use Scrum with a Decentralized Team I started my journey into decentralized management in 2011, and I currently work with 15 people ranging from writers, designers, and developers. In the beginning, the challenge was recruiting talent worldwide, but lately, the obstacles revolve around management. Here are a few key things I've learned along the way. Scrum
For Managers Thoughts on 10 years of wireframing In 10 years I've published over 20+ apps and one process I'm always looking to improve is wireframing. Some people believe that you need to use Flinto [https://www.flinto.com/], Origami [http://origami.design/] or some other market solution [http://www.creativebloq.com/wireframes/top-wireframing-tools-11121302] but I often find
For Managers Creating a Privacy Policy document for your app If you plan to publish an app to the iTunes store [https://itunesconnect.apple.com], there's a really good chance you will need to draft and publish a Privacy Policy. Here are a few templates I've used in the past. Personally, I prefer RocketLawyer's process the most but Upcounsel is
