Archive for November, 2010

Nov 30 2010

Anonymity on the Internet

Published by under Notes & Asides

Finally someone among the digital elite is talking sense on the subject of Internet anonymity. In an op-ed piece in today’s New York Times, Facebook product design manager Julie Zhuo speaks frankly about the effect that anonymity has had on the level of civility online, and some of the things Facebook and other sites are [...]

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Nov 29 2010

Why Work Doesn’t Happen at Work

Published by under Notes & Asides

As a young programmer just starting out, newly married, working on my employer’s stuff during the day and my own stuff during the evenings, I often struggled to convince my growing and social family that they had to leave me alone when I was working. As Jason Fried explains in this excellent video from October’s [...]

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