Side projects are the new resume

Applying for jobs can make you feel old, especially in the tech world. No one cares about your resume anymore. Hardly anyone asks where you went to college. And where years ago you would have proudly touted this or that achievement, these days the bigger question is what…

5 steps to excellence through purposeful practice

Top athletes don’t get to the top of their game just by practicing…

Hello, real world

You don’t know what a computer scientist is.

What the hell is ‘Data Science’ anyway?

Is it one of the phrases used to create convulsion among talent pool? Lets find out.

The term data science was first used by Peter Naur in 1974. The following is how one of the…

Lasting Tech Innovation: Putting a Price on Talent

Through the use of acqui-hires, Facebook, Twitter…

Why I hate you because of your resume

You caused this and now my heart hurts

Hiring UX People

Some of the Important things

I remember his face; dark hair and round brown eyes, Greek. He had applied for a junior UX designer role. I asked him why he wanted to leave his current job, and he launched into a super story of politics at his workplace. I…

Today, I hired 6 developers on oDesk.

How to hire on oDesk

Hire, unconventionally!

A mean way to bootstrap.. 

I wish I didnt have to tell you what I do.. 

A startup networking tale from the dark side. 

I was on the phone halfway through another of londons amazing startup meetups and before I put it down I told her;