Monthly Archives: November 2011

Getting Schooled By A New Hire 1

I recently hired a promising school dropout. He goes by the nomulous moniker on the web and as Fletcher Tomalty everywhere else. Some late night browsing on GitHub made me a very lucky manager as he’s so far the best hire of my 1st decade in technology. Too bad, he’s not drinking yet Last week, [...]

Jean Charest “Woll Smoth” 0

c’est dimanche au Québec

All those “People who don’t run your company” 0

Just read this great article right up my recent rant Stop listening. Just Build It.

If it’s your company, then it’s your fault 1

If you’re a co-founder,  CEO or simply the boss of the company, everything that sucks about it or that fails is your fault. Don’t even think of blaming the new guy, the young guy or the guy who left for a week in the Bahamas. If one does not know what to do, is not [...]