Building a better, and free, Remote Jobs board
In late 2018 I had decided to make a change in my career and was open to remote job roles (though I have ultimately landed with a great local company). So I began looking at the various w...
THE PERSONAL ARCHIVE · 2010—2019
Ideas, experiments,
and a few good stories.
Writing by Andrew Gertig on building things, figuring things out, and life along the way.
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From the archive
All storiesMillennials in the Workplace 'Don't Care'
A recent post on Entreprenuer.com about Millenials is another in the string of generalizations about a group of people that are not founded in any data. Rigid office hours? Strict dress c...
Why Employee Ranking Can Backfire
I've never been a fan of employee ranking. There is little evidence to prove that it drives sustainable positive behavior. In the past I would have argued that Sales might be an exception...
Why We Love to Hate HR…and What HR Can Do About It
Talent wars are highly cyclical. The software/technology world is one of the few that manages to remain somewhat even-keeled, but it is by no means immune. Assuming we are in a valuation ...
Programmers and Thespians
It’s not that email is broken or productivity tools all suck; it’s just that culture changes. People make email clients or to-do list apps in the same way that theater companies perform S...
Wearables Rant
For a time I un-ironically wore a Casio calculator watch. It was a simpler time filled with naiveté and hope for the future of tiny computers. With this Dick-Tracian future neigh upon us ...
Sources for Royalty Free Images and Mockup Images
Just to make my life easier when I want to find these again later. Oh, and you can use these too. Based on this post http://nos.twnsnd.co - New Old Stock http://littlevisuals.co http://un...
Setting up a Digital Ocean Droplet (VPS) on Ubuntu with Rails, Nginx, Unicorn, Postgres, Redis and Capistrano
Create a Droplet on Digital Ocean I stuck with the defaults: Size 512MB / 1 CPU 20GB SSD $5 / Month Image Ubuntu 12.04 x32 ssh to root in terminal with your server's ip address ssh root@1...