You Owe It To Yourself To Move On

Selling off the best hours of the best years of your life is one of the biggest decisions you’ll ever make (and remake).

Assuming you aren’t independently wealthy, it’s likely you need to do some sort of work-for-money exchange. Many of us…

What Long Hours Really Mean

In the tech and design sectors there’s a lot of folks working long hours, like 70+ hours a week. There’s a certain badge-of-honor-martyr-complex-thing that comes along with it. But let’s set the record straight. Here’s what long hours really mean:

Culture Matters, Prestige Does Not

Many designers, myself included, have thought, “Oh, that studio does such great work! I would love to work there.” But what does that even mean? It means they have a track-record of doing excellent work, which is great and respectable. But who’s done the great work…

Creating a Sidebar of Categories and Posts in WordPress

Recently, I was tasked with revamping the navigation on an internal WordPress site. Previously, the navigation was a hard-coded series of unordered lists and nested unordered lists on the homepage. Here’s an example of a single…

Believing The Best

A pretty simple step you can take toward creating a better workplace — basically by…

The One Week Rule

I remember being on the Google Hangout with Craig Bryant, our CEO, when he began “talking out loud” his new vision for the company. It wasn’t as clear as it is now, but it was obvious we were taking a dramatic shift. The shift was one we had been thinking about for a while, but had never fully…

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Customer feedback isn’t enough

My family and I just got back from a trip to Disney World. I spent five days there with my husband and…

Hiring into boundaries

Hiring well, particularly in a small business, is hard for many reasons. It’s hard because a small company (like ours) rarely has rigidly defined roles. It’s hard because the role you think you need today will morph into unpredictable shapes over time. It’s hard because so much of it…