Interlocking Puzzle Loft
Dwell, Interlocking Puzzle Loft [PDF]. I want a cool living space! (Instead of these lame wannabe condo interiors everyone is marketing).
Comments(2)102 movies to see
From Roger Ebert.com 102 Movies You Must See Before…
These are the movies I just kind of figure everybody ought to have seen in order to have any sort of informed discussion about movies. They’re the common cultural currency of our time, the basic cinematic texts that everyone should know, at minimum, to be somewhat “movie-literate.” I hope these movies are experiences we can all assume we share.
MyMicrosoft
Seattle Times, Under pressure, Microsoft fights to keep its workers.
Top technology talent no longer automatically heads to Microsoft. The company now contends with the gleam of Google and other competitors, as well as internal employment issues.
But Microsoft showed Thursday it won’t let practices that have stirred employee discontent get in the way of recruiting and keeping the best minds in computing.
They brought the towels back! :)
Though I would have liked if they would have brought the old ESPP (Employee Stock Purchase Program) back. I don’t know if you remember, but only a few months after starting a blog post of mine was picked up by the Washington Post - Microsoft Masters the Art of the Cutback.
So, this time, I won’t post what I’m really thinking but I definitely think the changes made yesterday are a step in the right direction. However, only time will tell if it’s going to be enough, especially now that another boom (or bubble) is forming.
…Unfortunately even though today was Bike To Work day, the towel service won’t resume until Monday.
Seattle J24 Fleet
Seattle J24 Fleet. Lots of good info here.
A Star Is Made
New York Times, A Star Is Made :
Their work, compiled in the “Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance,” a 900-page academic book that will be published next month, makes a rather startling assertion: the trait we commonly call talent is highly overrated. Or, put another way, expert performers — whether in memory or surgery, ballet or computer programming — are nearly always made, not born. And yes, practice does make perfect. These may be the sort of clichés that parents are fond of whispering to their children. But these particular clichés just happen to be true.