A curated and opinionated list of resources for Chief Technology Officers
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#2A curated and opinionated list of resources for Chief Technology Officers and VP R&D, with the emphasis on startups and hyper-growth companies.
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#3Wow what a great list!
Things like this increasingly make me think we need to go back to having web directories, like Yahoo and dmoz. There is so much great content out there that having good curated lists is very high value.
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#4Wow what a great list! Things like this increasingly make me think we need to go back to having web directories, like Yahoo and dmoz. There is so much great content out there that having good curated lists is very high value.
With the awesome lists, digital gardens, Pinboard and personal websites coming back I wouldn't be surprised if 'the human curated web' is the next big thing
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#5Wow what a great list! Things like this increasingly make me think we need to go back to having web directories, like Yahoo and dmoz. There is so much great content out there that having good curated lists is very high value.
In the few years before the WWW, I had a hobby at work of finding public FTP sites and downloading local copies of what was on the sites. A simple grep search over these files often surfaced useful code and data. I shared this with just my local work group at work.
I agree that the ‘awesome list’ repos on GitHub are very useful.
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#6Why is "opinionated" considered so valuable these days? In this case, it's redundant (curated implies opinionated, I think), so it's there to say something loudly. What? Are people not being opinionated enough? Is this defensiveness (if someone doesn't like what you did, well, you've already said it's just your opinion, man)?
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#7Why is "opinionated" considered so valuable these days? In this case, it's redundant (curated implies opinionated, I think), so it's there to say something loudly. What? Are people not being opinionated enough? Is this defensiveness (if someone doesn't like what you did, well, you've already said it's just your opinion, man)?
Maybe its an explicitly acknowledged bias suited to their own particular situation. YMMV!
Re: A curated and opinionated list of resources for Chief Technology Officers
#8Why is "opinionated" considered so valuable these days? In this case, it's redundant (curated implies opinionated, I think), so it's there to say something loudly. What? Are people not being opinionated enough? Is this defensiveness (if someone doesn't like what you did, well, you've already said it's just your opinion, man)?
If it’s not opinionated, it will just reflect the most popular items in the category that you’d just encounter via a Google search anyway.
The entire value of this kind of list is its curation. Sadly, most “awesome” lists are just long lists with a firehose of items of no special quality.
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#9Why is "opinionated" considered so valuable these days? In this case, it's redundant (curated implies opinionated, I think), so it's there to say something loudly. What? Are people not being opinionated enough? Is this defensiveness (if someone doesn't like what you did, well, you've already said it's just your opinion, man)?
I would say whether it's valuable is subjective: sometimes I want a more objective data-driven overview of trends, sometimes I want someone whom I've chosen to trust to provide partial views. Flagging it up front serves as much as a warning & disclaimer as it does a hook.
As for redundancy, they're technically synonymous but "curated" has become a much abused term and more often than not these days is erroneously used to mean "amassed and presented without endorsement". So I think the redundancy adds clarity here.
Re: A curated and opinionated list of resources for Chief Technology Officers
#10Why is "opinionated" considered so valuable these days? In this case, it's redundant (curated implies opinionated, I think), so it's there to say something loudly. What? Are people not being opinionated enough? Is this defensiveness (if someone doesn't like what you did, well, you've already said it's just your opinion, man)?
It's yet another funny trend that goes around in tech circles. As someone originally from math, my personal pet peeve is the way that tech people use "orthogonal" these days.
I guess people just want to communicate the idea that this piece of opinionated text is biased. Of course, everything is biased, so opinionated is supposed to be redundant. So it's a signal that the author understands that they have biases, and expresses them.
EDIT: I am not contesting any downvotes, but feel free to drop a note explaining why.