There’s an interesting thread going on over at Hackernews at the moment. It’s titled, ‘As a freelancer, how much do you bill per hour?’ What’s great about Hacker News threads like this one, though, is that it has +190 comments on it with lots to take away from people who are experienced and good at [...]

There’s a great piece on Google Think Quaterly; an interview with Oxfam CEO Barbara Stocking. This paragraph stood out for me. “…everybody is very committed to the cause. That makes them quite an interesting bunch to manage, particularly in Oxfam where we don’t pay much; people are here because they want to do something about [...]

Learning to write code is fast becoming an important skill for the average knowledge worker. Most people working in communications teams now need to have some ability to translate what they want as close to machine language as they can. That might present itself as simple Markup or HTML, or be more significant languages such [...]

Yesterday, I was playing some music through our AppleTV. The radio station choices on the AppleTV are pretty good and Rose and I enjoy having the classical solo piano station on whilst we cook/clean/whatever in the evenings. However last night, I wanted to play some of my own music through it, so went to turn [...]

Ok, that might be a tough statement but it makes the point I want to make today, the last day of 2011. By it, I mean that in the past 4 years or so we have seen the explosion of the smartphone and more broadly, the mobile web. This isn’t a new trend anymore, yet [...]

It’s almost 2012. As excited as that makes me, it’s also that time of year where our heads fill up with grandiose ideas of new things in our lives to improve. I’ve been partial to setting New Years Resolutions before, but have never really been that great at keeping them. Creating a habit calendar, however, [...]

I got a beautiful new Bellroy, Hide & Seek, wallet for Christmas, from Rose. Upon opening it, I was a little hesitant. I’m very selective when it comes to wallets and have aimed to keep mine as slim and functional as possible. You can see my old one as a prop in my post about [...]

Today is Christmas here in Australia, and I’m very lucky to be able to enjoy it with my family up in Kilmore, Victoria. I hope your Christmas has been equally enjoyable and refreshing.

How do we manage identity in the workplace, and why does this matter? In yesterday’s post we discussed a few ideas around twitter and how that’s currently the standard for lightweight identity on the Internet. But how do we scale that lightweight identity within an organisation? Identity is very important in an organisational setting. Identity [...]

Fred Wilson wrote a great post recently, Lightweight Identity. It has some really important themes in it, but the main contention of Fred’s post is that Twitter is, or has become, the lightweight identity on the internet. It’s obviously public, which means we don’t hold mental tension around people finding us there. There are things [...]