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In normal times, there are many reasons to go freelance, including the freedom to set your own hours, choose the type of work you want to do, and potentially earn more money. In 2020, many of us ha...

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El Reg speaks to Siemen's Lars Reinkemeyer

At Super Evil Megacorp, we’ve been working toward becoming friendly to remote team members for a while now. Last year, we upgraded our goal from just being remote friendly to becoming a Remote First studio. To us, “Remote First” means being intentional about our processes, technology, operations and culture to ensure a feeling of equity, […]

Ship more stuff. Make more money. Help more people.

If you're a newly minted consultant, how should you position yourself? It's a tough question, but here's a hint: not the way you're used to positioning yourself as an employee.

Having a business plan can boost your chances of success! Learn the basic components of a business plan and get free templates and examples.

How do you move faster when adding folks to a project supposedly slows it down? Mailchimp’s CPO takes the reader through some considerations for preserving momentum while scaling up.

Development teams at the highest level focus on interpersonal soft skills and quality interaction just as much as technical aptitude.

We hear little about bootstrapped companies, despite bootstrapping being an effective way to get up and running. We cover five successful bootstrapped firms you’ve probably not heard of – until now

Pinterest's tech stack explained simply (5 minute read)

Learn more about how we use GitHub to build GitHub, how we turned our guiding communications principles into prescriptive practices to manage our internal communications signal-to-noise ratio, and how you can contribute to the ongoing conversation.

Explore takeaways from a curated selections of leadership and productivity books, handpicked by Addy Osmani. Unlock your potential with titles like The Effec...

When unreasonable requests are followed up with "but you could have just said no!" Exploring the clashes of ask culture and guess culture, at home and at work.

(Credit: Wired magazine. ) Time to read: 50 minutes We touched down in Las Vegas only three hours before, but we were already back in the plane and flying home to San Jose on a brisk winter day in …

A well-defined Product Process increases your products time to market while providing value to users and improving product quality.

We obsess over managing our time. However, we should focus on managing our capacity instead: it's our ability to do our best work.

A founder recently asked me how to stop caring what other people think. I didn’t have an answer, and after reflecting on it more, I think it's the wrong question. Almost everyone cares what...

A theme in my practice is the leader who's aware or senses that a colleague is suffering and would like to offer support but is unsure how to broach the topic--and a version of this occurs in my own work....

One of the most common management mistakes is not providing clarity when people are wrong on important, invested efforts.

I’m coming up on 15 years of professional software engineering. I’ve worked at companies from unknown startups to large FAANG-like silicon valley companies and everywhere in between. In no particular order, sharing some things I’ve learned that others may find helpful.

Let's look at motivation, craft, opportunity and taking ownership.

We never have enough time. So we need to make the most of what we have. Managing it like an investment portfolio can help.

Here Richard Holman discusses some of the most common questions, doubts and problems that have come up in his five years as a creative coach

When you hesitate to ask for what you want or need, you aren't just missing out on immediate rewards or opportunities. You're also doing a disservice...

There I was, standing in the middle of a buzzing tech event that our company organized, feeling like a fish out of water. The room was filled with