Month: May 2017
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Take my online survey about music listening habits!
I am writing an article (and eventually a book) on music listening habits. For this article I prepared this survey (which should take about 8-15 minutes to complete). As an aside, I am curious exactly how hard it will be to recruit people to fill out this survey. I plastered the URL on my other…
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“Must Have 5+ Years Experience” Fallacy
I originally wrote this article in Spring 2002 — during a long and painful bout of unemployment). I have more up-to-date thoughts on the topic which I will post eventually. Why does every job ad require 5 years of experience? What does this mean anyway? 5 years experience with the same job title? That is…
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Are Meetings Productive?
This is one of the first articles I created for the Internet on my idiotprogrammer.com domain. I wrote it July 2001. I’m reproducing it here. While working at Dell, I spent an an extraordinary amount of time at meetings. A good number seemed to be a waste of time or could have easily taken place…
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Ok, what happened to my old stuff?
In 2000 or so I bought the idiotprogrammer.com domain. I had intended it to be my professional portfolio site, with some bloggy articles on it. This would contrast that with my personal domain imaginaryplanet.net which would contain my (nonpseudonymous) personal/creative stuff. About 5 or 10 years ago, I decided not to renew the domain…