Archive for January, 2016
Thursday, January 28th, 2016
I write a short daily series for O'Reilly Media, Four Short Links, which I've done for years. I recently posted a link to someone's "10 Golden Rules for Becoming a Better Programmer" and said "what are your 10 rules for being better in your field? If you haven’t built a list, then you aren’t ...
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Monday, January 18th, 2016
Teamwork shares a lot of good practices with parenting. This lesson was no exception .... I realised fairly early on in my time as a parent that I had a tendency to fail, bigtime, by blasting my kids for something they hadn't done. The pattern became evident: I see something, ...
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Saturday, January 9th, 2016
When I was recruiting the fabulous Chris McDowall for a job, he asked me "why do YOU work here?" I replied that I was learning lots. He then said the most important thing anyone has said to me this decade: "what are you learning?"
I goldfished for a few seconds and ...
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Monday, January 4th, 2016
I was asked for comment by Bill Bennet from the NZ Herald, for a piece on Kiwi startups moving to Silicon Valley. He built a nice little article, in which "Torkington says" features heavily. My policy is that if I email journalists, I'll blog my side of the conversation for transparency's sake.
I ...
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