Entries Tagged 'business' ↓
July 29th, 2007 — business, career
[Originally posted on what used to be a separate blog 'On jobs, work and careers' and later was merged into this blog.]
- Mashable.com: 70+ Tools For Job Hunting 2.0
- Paul Graham: How to Make Wealth:
Economically, you can think of a startup as a way to compress your whole working life into a few years. Instead of working at a low intensity for forty years, you work as hard as you possibly can for four. This pays especially well in technology, where you earn a premium for working fast.
- Free Exchange blog at The Economist: Sick man no more: the German economy and labour market is recovering:
Germany is indeed waking from its sclerotic slumbers and might post a growth rate of 3% in 2007. That would more than double the 1995 to 2005 average growth rate of 1.4%, and could even exceed expected American and British 2007 growth numbers.
July 20th, 2007 — business, career
[Originally posted on what used to be a separate blog 'On jobs, work and careers' and later was merged into this blog.]
A site for a book called “Career distinction” has something they call an online identity calculator. The ‘calculator’ is actually a rough guide to assessing how does your personal brand look on the internet.
I had never heard about the book or the site before, but the online identity calculator seems like an interesting tool for those that want to build out a reputation online.
July 15th, 2007 — business, career, programming
[Originally posted on what used to be a separate blog 'On jobs, work and careers' and later was merged into this blog.]
Interesting links on the topic of jobs, work and careers:
- Enrique Dans: ¿Alguien ha visto un programador? (Has somebody seen a programmer?):
En España, a este lado del túnel, se necesitan programadores. Y los programadores necesitan una reivindicación urgente de su profesión, que recupere el legítimo orgullo de quien crea, de quien desarrolla, de quien se responsabiliza de un todo, de quien se enamora de un proyecto y no se limita a ser un obrero en el mismo, sino un verdadero arquitecto. Se buscan programadores con orgullo y capacidad para serlo. Pero por lo que se ve, habrá que mirar debajo de las piedras.
Rough translation:
In Spain, on this side of the tunnel, we need programmers. And programmers urgently need to claim back their profession, they need to recover the legitimate pride of someone who creates, develops and is responsible for a whole, of someone who falls in love with a project and doesn’t limit himself to being a mere labourer on it, but is a real architect. We need proud programmers and programmers with the skills to be one. It seems they will be hard to find.
- The Business of Software Wiki (from Joel on Software):
Our goal is to gather and present unbiased, useful and up-to-date information about the business of software, whether it’s microISVs selling desktop software, Web 2.0 sites, or even the big enterprise kind of outfits.
- Brazen Careerist: How to be a star performer: 4 things to get good at (yes, this one’s a year old, but it’s still a good read):
To become your best self – a star, a great leader, a fulfilled worker – you need to know yourself and your goals very well. Start now. It’s a lifelong process, and done honestly, it’s the process that makes almost any job intrinsically challenging and interesting.
October 27th, 2005 — business, internet
Over at business2blog I read that Jon ‘Neverdie’ Jacobs buys a space station in Project Entropia for $100.000. Clive Thompson explains why it makes sense:
Because it’s just like owning the Mall of America — it’s a place to conduct business and make real-world cash. Indeed, Project Entropia currently has 236,000 registered accounts, and the game allows you to use Earth money to buy in-game currency, which makes it spectacular place for any entrepreneur to set up business, really.
Not only does it makes sense (to me, anyway), but it feels as the all those futuristic novels where people lived and transacted in virtual worlds as much as in the ‘real’ world are coming true. And really, why not? If you do some work and provide some services in-game, why not be paid for it with ‘real’ money?
Trying to think about the implications of this is making me dizzy. I’ll better go grab a tea. Talk to you later.
October 23rd, 2005 — business, freedom, technology
Joi Ito writes that
At EuroOSCON, Microsoft announced new software licenses including some variations that may meet the Open Source Initiative (OSI) Open Source Definition.
The times they are a-changing, or what? 
