KPIs considered harmful

If you've had any exposure at all to large bureaucracies, you will probably know that KPI stands for Key Performance Indicator, which is...

What makes Google such a great place to work? (Part 2)

This is the second of a two part series about what makes Google a great place to work, so I shall skip the preamble and dive right into so...

What makes Google such a great place to work?

[A lot of people seem to be entering my blog for the first time through this post. Welcome! If you'd like to be kept updated about futur...

Dealing with technical debt

Once in a while something goes crazy in my Google Reader (I know, time to find something new :-/ ) and it will spam my feed with dozens of o...

This makes me mad

There are a bunch of refugees on hunger strike at a detention centre in Melbourne at the moment, and here's why: they were assessed as ...

Succeeding for lazy people

This is a follow up to my previous post about being lazy . In the last post, I tried to define laziness in a positive (or at least, less neg...