Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
Last night Hal [happy returns of the day, Hal!] told me a tale of a job-hunting workshop he attended wherein the leader told him, without irony, that he needed to pump more buzzwords into his …
If there's one iota of wisdom I remember from Reader's Digest's "Quotable Quotes," it's that good stories feature ordinary people doing extraordinary things or extraordinary people doing ordinary things. This model explains to me why …
The monthly New York Tech Meetup continues to put on a good show. It used to be free to get in but now you have to prepay $10 on the Meetup site to RSVP, since …
If there is one thing I have learned from Obama Pics Daily it is that the candidates have to eat in public, a lot, and they often look silly while doing so. Barack Obama is …
I love reading Derek Lowe's In The Pipeline to glimpse the shape of the biochem industry: what's inherently hard, what's common, and what's revolutionary. The grammar is familiar if the nouns aren't. This came through …
I really like writing technical specifications and recruiting. Today I did both!
On any given day there would be three or four debates Sixteen or more debates would determine the winner, tournament-style You'd see team debate ("Oxford-style") where each ticket found out 90 minutes before the show …
On the occasion of the end of his TV show, Roger Ebert links to semi-embarrassing YouTube clips and garners poignant appreciation from his fans. One crucial point comes up over and over again in the …
Seeing old friends makes me feel homesick. Going to more free culture events here may help. Also, distractions! Like HOWTO/memoir books about other professions! Zac Unger's Working Fire, about a guy who basically leaves academe …
While updating my list of books to read I came across some snatches I'd meant to blog: The DVD for The Matrix should include a deleted scene where Morpheus, who has shipped a cell phone …