Summary: eighteen months ago I landed a great Rails job with no previous Ruby experience. Here are three tips to help you to do the same. 1. It’s all about your portfolio app It’s important to build a Rails app that an interviewer can access and play with. The best way to prove you understand [...]
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Two Halves of Apple
Monday, April 19, 2010
On the one hand, you have people starting blogs just to study the tiny trickle of Steve’s public emails. This is an act of yearning. Steve Jobs’ blog would be an instant sensation. On the other, you have this: Steve Jobs is Willy Wonka. He won’t let you inside his chocolate factory and he is [...]
A thought on public speaking
Saturday, April 17, 2010
From Benjamin Zander’s effervescent TED talk: “I’m not going to go on until every single person in this room [has] come to love and understand classical music. Now you notice that there is not the slightest doubt in my mind that this is going to work. It’s one of the characteristics of a leader that [...]