I’ve linked to this already (see right hand side of blog) but I thought it was worth blogging about it since some of you may not be clicking on the links that I pick out so painstakingly.
Here’s the link to the video and transcript of the speech which is worth listening to or reading, [...]
John Scalzi, who among other things writes Whatever, a popular blog, wrote an entry a couple of days ago titled Unasked-For Advice to New Writers About Money . If you’re a freelancer you’ll find the post interesting and informative and with Scalzi’s writing style, entertaining as well. Just read the post already.
An excerpt:
I made [...]
From Kalpana Sharma’s excellent piece Invisible Women about a documentary called Lakshmi and Me:
We usually wake up to their existence when they don’t turn up for work. And the first response is annoyance, because of the inconvenience caused to us. Many professional women don the title of being superwomen because they manage jobs and homes [...]
From the Hindustan Times:
Like several times in the last three-and-a-half years, both Houses of Parliament were adjourned sine die on Monday, four days ahead of schedule, amid speculation of mid-term polls and a government-opposition deadlock on the BJP’s demand for a joint parliamentary committee (JPC) to look into the Indo-US nuclear deal.
The Lok Sabha Speaker [...]
John August, script writer, director, and movie guru, has written a nice piece for Men’s Health called My Glorious Defeat
Maybe failure isn’t the problem. Maybe expectation is.
After I was fired from my TV show, I was certain I’d never work in television again. I’d been given a great opportunity and blown it. The studio and [...]
Marc Andreessen, who’s best-known for being the co-founder of a company you may have heard of, Netscape, wrote a superb post titled How to hire the best people you’ve ever worked with.
He splits the post into an explanation of the criteria (’what to value when evaluating candidates’ 
and the process (’how to actually run [...]
An interesting article from Al Jazeera titled Recycling for life in Argentina:
‘Cartoneros’, or ‘recyclers’, have become one of the enduring consequences of the Argentinean economic crisis of 1999 – 2002, when the peso devalued by 70 per cent.
Their job has meant dramatic results for the environment by reducing the amount of solid waste going [...]
An interesting article about meetings by Dick Lyles titled Free Your Colleagues from Chronic Suffering: How to Eliminate Meeting Madness. Here’s an excerpt:
Always think in terms of conducting a NEAT meeting.
The N stands for Nature. What’s the nature of the meeting? Is it problem solving? Decision making? Planning? It is important for participants to [...]
Joel Spolsky, in a guest-column for Inc magazine, writes:
A lot of companies think they’re hiring the top 1 percent because they get 100 resumés for every open position. They’re kidding themselves. When you fill an opening, think about what happens to the 99 people you turn away. They don’t give up and go into plumbing. [...]
It’s here. No, it’s not the first Ben and Jerry’s but I like the way you think. It’s Joel’s job board, India edition.
Here it is straight from Joel:
OK, it’s live! I’ve put up a new version of the job board specifically for jobs in India, jobs.joelonsoftware.co.in.
To help fill it up, posting a job is [...]
