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I Hoped You Would Fail

melgray: I sat there spin­ning in my desk chair grin­ning like an idiot with one of my fel­low devs when he let it slip: “I hoped you would fail”. He even threw up a lit­tle fist jab as if to ges­ture, “hip hip hooray”.

January 1, 2010 – 11:32 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Economics, Programming | Tagged , , , | Comments Off

Let’s Talk About Meetings

Meet­ings how about you and I talk. Why are there so many of you, why do they so often turn into present and inform ses­sions when they should be plan and decide. Why is it so easy to sched­ule one of you, 30 sec­onds of work and an hour of 5 people’s time is gone …

December 7, 2009 – 9:01 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Communication, Economics | Tagged , , , | Comments Off