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Great observational comedy by Louis CK.

The could be anywhere.

• The company you work for still uses an internal postal system.
• Your bug-tracking software maintenance licence expired two years ago.
• Your account managers say “yes” to every client request.
• To book resources, you need to fill in a spreadsheet with six worksheets.
• Four colleagues in a meeting can’t tell you what an internally used acronym means.

Why not to (always) trust recruiters’ advice.

A piece of advice and “wisdom” I received from a certain nameless Director of Major Players in 2000 (now departed).

“Go back to college. Learn (formerly Macromedia, now Adobe) Lingo. Learn how to create CD-ROMs in Director.”

Fortunately, I didn’t take heed of this, was aware of an upcoming language called PHP and the CD-ROM has gone the way of the dinosaur.

I hate to quote Fleetwood Mac but sometimes it pays to “go your own way”.

This interesting post on Ask HN listed a number of things tried and tested at Twilio, a Bay Area startup offering an API for making/receiving telephone calls and sending/receiving text messages:
Read more Tips and Tricks to Save Money While Running a Startup…

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What project artifacts do your digital web development projects typically generate? Here are some of the basics I deal with:

1. Statement of work (SOW)
2. Project plan (start/end dates, milestones, etc.)
3. Briefs or briefing documents
4. Cost estimates or budget sheets
5. Purchase order(s) (PO)
6. Invoices
7. Agendas (for meetings)
8. Status reports (weekly)
9. Issues/risks
10. Financial reconciliations
11. Receipts
12. Invoices
13. Functional specification
14. Technical specification
15. Site map
16. Wireframe schematics
17. Testing or quality assurance plans

Effective today, 20 May 2010, I’ve deactivated my Facebook account due to my concerns over privacy, general lack of use and interest in better online services.

Deactivate your Facebook account

I will be deleting my account on 01 June 2010 – unless I get a change of heart.

You can read more about the reasons behind this here and here.

JIM: I want to talk to you about appearance. Most of you dress like shit. I don’t know what your financial situation is like right now but you need to buy at least one decent suit. There is a minimum level of aesthetic professionalism that we have here. In a couple of months you’ll be able to outfit your whole closet, but for now just get something to hold you over. There’s an important phrase that we use here and I think it’s time you all learned it. “Act as if”. Do you understand what that means? Act as if you are the fucking president of this firm. Act as if you have a nine inch cock. Act as if. To do this properly you need to at least look the part. So go get dressed.

- Jim Young (Ben Affleck), Boiler Room, 2000.

Entourage Season 6, Episode 3: Ari Gold makes a motivational speech to Turtle about starting a business.