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I remember that era of using ` ` dropdowns for navigation. Phew.
In fact it worked better than many hamburger menus I find on modern mobile sites.
It's not the greatest UX but it's not that bad either.
Enron... sigh . I went to college near Houston (Texas A&M) and interviewed with Enron in early-mid November, 2001 prior to December graduation. Given the timing, I believe it may have been the very last interview loop they did. For a soon-to-graduated Comp Sci student, Enron put on an amazing presentation. The interview was onsite at Enron headquarters. They took the candidates to dinner one evening, put us up in a n…
In my experience, one should, in a corporate environment, take most seriously what is shrugged off and discount anything taken seriously. Because the reactions are revelatory of the attitudes that lead to crisis and crime.
Eeeeyeah. When I'm applying for a job, if I go to their corporate site and their about us page reads like the KPMG anthem, or Weird Al's "Mission Statement", it's a huge red flag or at least it prompts followup questions. (Most annoying is when I ask the crooter followup questions and get "Did you check out their web site?" as a response. Yes, I did, and it told me nothing. Did you?) Based on that, we should've seen…
Weird Al’s “mission statement” was released in 2014 and was itself a parody of the KPMG anthem (which was done in earnest) that was leaked less than a year prior to Enron failing. There would likely have not been any collective cultural sentiment around this text in the year 2000 in the same way as there is today. Just something to keep in mind when viewing historical events, even if they seem recent, with a modern l…
https://amp.theguardian.com/business/2001/dec/09/theobserver...
loads fast!
Today, I see YouTube ads from Enbridge, another monster energy company out of Calgary. Exactly the same sort of weird, disconnected nonsense: roosters (for some reason) and childish music.
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Weird Al’s “mission statement” was released in 2014 and was itself a parody of the KPMG anthem (which was done in earnest) that was leaked less than a year prior to Enron failing. There would likely have not been any collective cultural sentiment around this text in the year 2000 in the same way as there is today. Just something to keep in mind when viewing historical events, even if they seem recent, with a modern l…
Wow, somehow I’ve never come across the KPMG anthem thing before. Awesome! https://amp.theguardian.com/business/2001/dec/09/theobserver...
KPMG, We're strong as can be, A dream of power and energy. We go for the goal, Together we hold On to our vision of global strategy...
I remember that era of using ` ` dropdowns for navigation. Phew.
Huge fan of Enron branding, it was done by none other than Paul Rand: https://www.paulrand.design/work/Enron.html
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zombo.com is still going, so why not Enron?
Overall, zombo.com has done better than Enron
ah the beauties of deregulation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000%E2%80%9301_California_ele...
Enron... sigh . I went to college near Houston (Texas A&M) and interviewed with Enron in early-mid November, 2001 prior to December graduation. Given the timing, I believe it may have been the very last interview loop they did. For a soon-to-graduated Comp Sci student, Enron put on an amazing presentation. The interview was onsite at Enron headquarters. They took the candidates to dinner one evening, put us up in a n…
>The Enron folks shrugged it off. They believed in the company and believed in the work they were doing. In my experience, one should, in a corporate environment, take most seriously what is shrugged off and discount anything taken seriously. Because the reactions are revelatory of the attitudes that lead to crisis and crime.
