KHOG

12/09/2016

http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20160824-why-a-nice-boss-can-hurt-your-career

Just because a boss is nice, doesn’t mean he or she is any good. A tough, demanding manager will push you to do your best work, writes Sydney Finkelstein

05/04/2016

http://www.inc.com/walter-chen/6-confusing-things-millionaire-freelancers-always-do.html?cid=sf01001&sr_share=twitter

Understand these 6 counterintuitive things to unlock your own million-dollar freelancing business.

15/03/2016

The Future of Jobs
Employment, Skills and Workforce Strategy for the
Fourth Industrial Revolution

http://www3.weforum.org/docs/Media/WEF_Future_of_Jobs_embargoed.pdf

09/02/2016

http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2016-job-skills-report/

The Bloomberg Job Skills Report 2016: What Recruiters Want

New business school graduates are lacking the job skills that corporate recruiters are looking for.

08/02/2016

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-05/how-to-spend-your-bonus-on-experiences-not-things-this-year

With markets, currencies, and entire nations in turmoil, 2016 may not be the year you splurge on a supercar. Why not make some memories instead?

20/01/2016

Silicon Valley Goes Hollywood: Top Coders Can Now Get Agents!

Software developers now have agents. Hey, given the demand for talent out there, it was bound to happen.

And finally techies can do what they really want to do, technology leaving the negotiations and business side to the agents. Yoo! Hoo!

http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2013-04-10/silicon-valley-goes-hollywood-top-coders-can-now-get-agents

Software developers now have agents. Hey, given the demand for talent out there, it was bound to happen

20/01/2016

Deconstructing urgent vs. important

A six-year-old who throws a tantrum and refuses to go to school is escalating into the urgent.

Going to school every day is important.

Mollifying an angry customer is urgent, building systems and promises that keep customers from getting angry is important.

Killing the bugs in the kitchen is urgent, putting in weatherstripping to keep them out for the long haul is important (as is avoiding carcinogens).

Fifteen years ago, Elian Gonzales was at the center of a perfect media storm. It was an urgent issue, one that involved heads of state. But it wasn't nearly as important as eventually normalizing relations and the well-being of millions of people.

In fact, breaking news of any kind is rarely important.

Important means: long-term, foundational, coherent, in the interest of many, strategic, efficient, positive...

If you take care of important things, the urgent things don't show up as often. The opposite is never true.

Excerpt from http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2016/01/deconstructing-urgent-vs-important.html

19/01/2016

Why an Ex-Google Coder Makes Twice as Much Freelancing

Amid an accelerating war for tech talent, big companies and startups alike are paying top dollar—as much as $1,000 a hour, according to a person who gets coders gigs—for freelancers with the right combination of skills.

Independent software developers say they're free to program and avoid the bureaucracy and endless meetings endemic to big companies.

"At a company like Merrill Lynch you have to be seen by the right people doing the right thing rather than just getting on with the job you've been given,"

Knight, who left Google to work with 10x, agrees: "At Google you could probably get away with not working for six to nine months—just showing up and making it look like you’re working," he says.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-19/why-an-ex-google-coder-makes-twice-as-much-freelancing

With a talent war raging, companies from Airbnb to Pfizer are paying top dollar for the services of independent programmers

18/01/2016

Fear is easy, hope is real
Fear shows up unbidden, it almost never goes away if you will it to, and it's rarely a useful tool for your best work.

Hope, on the other hand, can be conjured. It arrives when we ask it to, it's something we can give away to others again and again, and we can use it as fuel to build something bigger than ourselves.

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2016/01/fear-is-easy-hope-is-real.html

08/01/2016

Start Up!

08/01/2016

Stand Out!!

05/01/2016

Three Elements of a Successful Platform Strategy

https://hbr.org/2013/01/three-elements-of-a-successful-platform?cm_sp=Article-_-Links-_-Top%20of%20Page%20Recirculation