37Signals posted on the way Bang and Olufsen does design. They don’t go to the office more than two or three times a month. They design with paper and cardboard in 3D and build it up little by little.
Greatness comes from successfully breaking the rules.
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Via Phil Platt at the Bad Astronomy blog, I saw this smack down of Creationist Andy Schlafly by Richard Lenski of Michigan State University.
I have in the past been squarely in the Creationist camp. I’ve seen more and more evidence that evolution really works, and I’ve seen more evidence that the “Creation Scientists” play loose [...]
GameCareerGuide has an article discussing one path to becoming a game designer.
If you’re interested in Game Design as a career, go read it.
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Via @kiwork on Twitter, I read this press release from Sun, telling how their study of their flexible work program, they discovered that their employees on the program saved considerable money.
Main points:
Employees saved more than $1,700 per year in gasoline and wear and tear on their vehicles by working at home an average of 2.5 [...]
Been debating direction for future development efforts. I love the iPhone, and it’s getting a lot of press these days. Seems everyone wants development done on it, so there’s plenty of opportunity on it to make money doing development.
At the same time, I really like what I see coming with Android. It offers a totally [...]
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Seth Godin has a great post discussing the evils of voicemail trees that actually drive customers away.
In short, every CEO (and marketing manager) should call his company, including at odd hours, and go through the pain that their customers go through. Then get the problems fixed.
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