Brock Whitbread
Brock Whitbread

Brock Whitbread

Journalism Grad turned Web Dev mostly at #paid and part-time at Bitmaker Labs. Still a news junkie, still writing (mostly for me).

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From Fired for Slacking too little?! by Kirill Zubovsky

For doers — developers, designers, creative people, Slack is the biggest hindrance to work imaginable. To be productive, to add value, creative people need to disconnect from the world and to focus with utmost intensity on the problems they are solving. For some that means a quiet room room, for others a loud coffee shop, yet for others it’s a beach a…

From The gender wage gap in Silicon Valley by Rasty Turek

I would also love for Angellist (and others) to publish this kind of data on a regular basis. They obviously do have the datasets. I know they’re far from perfect and do not represent the whole population, etc. — but it’s still be…

From Adele is the largest selling artist on earth. So what’s she going to do about it? by Nathan Hubbard

… in the home, to “cutting-edge” software that never seems quite ready for primetime. In particular, Apple Music still feels like a house built on the foundation of an old home that the owners never wanted to fully tear down for tax purposes. The compromises and technical debt are palpable.