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Your brain might be able to skim faster when it has visible markers to use. I often use lines/paragraph breaks as these markers (on top of punctuation). It's easier to get lost in …

How do you deal with tightly coupled projects, where there needs to be a lot of back and forth communications between team members? If everyone is working all random hours, wouldn'…

The key is to make sure you always have goals. They can't be too big or complex, or you'll find a way to not do them! While it's generally acceptable to make goals that are as larg…

"Then the Monopoly became evident, and around the time of Windows 95 Microsoft realized they did not need to make things simple to users, but instead users had to learn how to use …

I totally agree, when your product sells well, why would you question the way it's put together?

While you don't look obese, you don't look too fit either. With that kind of diet, I see a coronary bypass in your future.

You know, they could also not delete our accounts without giving us the ability to adjust what they don't like. This could all be automated, and wouldn't require much if any human …

It's not about cost, it's about being tied a large weight that could be thrown overboard at any moment. I went with a gmail account back in 2004 because I didn't want to be tied to…

You sir, aren't thinking things through. If you want to risk losing critically important emails because google decided it didn't like your google+ picture, you be my guest. I for o…

I have to admit, this whole story gives me pause. I live and breath by my gmail account, and it they decide to deactivate it for no good reason (or refuse to help me after the fact…

That's an interesting observation. I would say it fits, since the person at the top (guy running the company, decision maker, so on) sees the abstractions beneath him, and takes ac…