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Netflix Culture meet Reddit

Monday, October 22nd, 2007 at 1:24 pm

“Redditors comment on the Netflix recruiting page”:http://reddit.com/info/5yhx5/comments/.
Favorite comment of the bunch:
“Translation: You will do the work of two people with very little guidance among a bunch of other cut-throat type-A personalities. Where do I sign up!”
Hilarious, almost true, but in a completely positive way (I’m a UI Engineer for them during the day).

Labor Day

Friday, September 7th, 2007 at 4:23 pm

What is hard work?

Why career planning is a waste of time

Saturday, February 3rd, 2007 at 6:23 pm

Or follow what you think your bliss is [via kottke].

Changes Afoot

Monday, December 18th, 2006 at 11:41 pm

_Learn to face the strain_. I’ve been busy these last few days rearranging my life and daily bread around. I moved to a location closer to downtown Mountain View on Saturday, but I’m sort of off the grid at the moment: my phoneline is not working and neither is my internet connection. So it’s been [...]

You want some angst with those fries?

Saturday, October 1st, 2005 at 10:58 am

“Rock stars who went back work”:http://ilx.p3r.net/thread.php?msgid=5444983: Interesting thread about returning to the daily grind. Mostly indies, but a couple of mainstream references. What’s this about the viability of the long tail again?

Yes Big Sur-ree

Saturday, July 16th, 2005 at 10:34 am

I went camping in Big Sur with the good folks at my day job last week. About two and a half hours from Palo Alto, it’s a gorgeous 90-mile stretch of coast line that starts a little after Carmel. Forests full of gigantic redwood trees, miles of hiking trails (along with tons of poison oak) [...]

How 20% works at Google

Friday, March 25th, 2005 at 11:17 am

One codebase to rule them all, and in the personal side project bind them!

Google labs aptitude test

Thursday, September 16th, 2004 at 9:27 pm

The fuck if I know