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How software developers can arrange themselves to perform their optimal performance. Over the past few years, I have been engaged in an ongoing discussion with numerous other developers, exploring how we can arrange ourselves to achieve optimal performance in our work. Anecdotally, there’s a feeling that the way we do…

It’s a full-time remote position and you can earn 400k. — Marie Forleo is a badass entrepreneur, influencer, speaker, and NYT bestselling author. Her mantra: “Make work that matters — Put your genius to work to make real, meaningful change in the world.” Marie is the founder of MarieTV, B-School, The Copy Cure, and Time Genius. She has 700K Instagram followers…

How to spot abusive leaders, why they’re rarely fired, and strategies to cope or force change — Years ago I worked for a boss who was not just a bad boss, not just inept, but who verbally abused and threatened me and other employees on a regular basis. The whole place ran on fear and loathing. This boss was toxic. You know the type. Self-serving, egotistical, out…

Screw that, let the job hunt begin! — My job has worn me down to the bone. They’ve cut my support due to budget, so I’m literally working two full-time jobs on one pay cheque. Days are just flying by and the commute doesn’t help matters anymore. …

Or “Confessions of a Lapsed Libertarian” — Years ago I read something about the old, high-end Hilton hotels. Apparently, they were each built with an “Atrium” towards the top of the property where the Operations Director or General Manager would live. That always hit me as a bit too on the nose, so to speak: they were…

Hopping on a “quick call” is my Dante’s Seventh Circle of Hell. — Watch me stifle a yawn as Jack Torrence, Michael Meyers, and Jason Voorhies wield sharp objects with the intent of filleting me. Witness me fall into a blissful slumber in the Amityville House while blood rains down the walls. I’ve no problem falling prey to a videotape that kills me…

A simple process but not easy to do. — Money is tight right now, but only if you don’t know where to look. Sure, you paid three or four times the price for a dozen eggs, double the price for meat or chicken. Maybe your rent went up a couple of hundred bucks a month. Throughout this, your pay…