Mediacom, this is why you suck. In fact, it might be at the very heart of why you are evil. First you introduce this non-standard “Website Redirect Service” that redirects me to your stupid page, but then you don’t let me opt out of it.
In the past, at least you respected my selection and let me opt out…but only for a while. Eventually, you always come back.
You are a blight on internet standards and really, you need to stop doing this to your customers.
This is awesome. It’s Netflix’ Guide on Freedom, Responsibility and Culture.
Parts of it seem frightening and unfair and draconian, other parts seem absolutely spot on or even, amazing. It’s kind of a chiral reflection of how things work at Valve: very careful hiring, very specific cullings, very little of most of the garbage that comes from Taylor…
OK, so we’re going to be with the default theme for awhile. I’ve just migrated a few properties over to WordPress from Drupal, and this one comes from a Drupal site _and_ an old Blogger site. So, I’m going to stick with the stock 2013 theme for a bit until I get everything else going on in my life sorted out.
Gabe Newell is one seriously awesome dude. It’s not so much that he runs, Valve, one of the most significant video game companies in the world; but that he runs it as a flat organization without traditional “management” roles.
It’s a fascinating organization because their practices fly in the face of many other practices you find in the software industry today. Amongst some of the more interesting facts about life at Valve include,
Oh really?
The following links were provided on the last slide of my Surviving Agile presentation given on 9/11/2012 at the Eastern Iowa chapter of the Society for Technical Communication.
