How I Hired Someone On Craigslist And Quadrupled My Productivity
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How I Hired Someone On Craigslist And Quadrupled My Productivity
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#2This is an interesting and funny experiment, but I believe it's success lies in the fact that the author lucked out and found someone who could actually help with his work for $8 an hour.
I didn't watch the videos, but from the text it sounds like the lady was more like a good coworker, certainly better than your average minimum wage slapper.
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#3"Social working" -- I always thought this was the most important takeaways from XP and agile methodologies, that the highest quality work gets done when we tell each other what we're going to do ahead of time (agile/scrum), and then collaborate in the most literal sense by sharing one screen (pair programming) to see that the work gets done in the best possible way. Granted there are surely lots of other takeaways, but those are two things I did take, and I only do one of them.
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#4I think it's a neat and creative idea, but I wonder about its long-term effectiveness as they get to know one another better. It's easy to be embarrassed when making mistakes in front of someone you don't know at all, because there still exists that social awkwardness between the two. But get to know someone well enough and it's much easier to shrug off. Maybe he should just hire someone new every few weeks to keep things fresh?
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#5As a productivity system, this is idiotic.
As a blog post that serves as link-bait, it is GENIUS.
...which is to say, I think it excelled at the REAL goal. ;-)
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#6This is such an obtuse way to meet girls that it might actually work!
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#7The $0/hour is to redirect your most popular slack sites in (e.g. Facebook) using /etc/hosts. You can redirect them to localhost, or to something you personally find annoying. :P
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#8Ignoring the moronic link bait about slapping, essentially what he did was apply pair programming to writing. It would make far more economic sense to do this as well, since the level of entry to get a person to pair with to write is far lower than for a programmer, so kudos.
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#9>Want a bicycle, but you’d rather not buy stolen bikes from the corner of Market and 7th? To Craigslist we go.
Ironic, since Craigslist is infested with stolen bike listings :(.
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#10This is essentially pair-programming, and seems to be the reason he got more done -- a great idea to improve productivity.