I don’t clean, I play the game “Where does this belong? - Rands
Trying out the whole stand-up desk thing. So far so good!

Trying out the whole stand-up desk thing. So far so good!

The reason you feel most comfortable with a job… is that you’ve been brainwashed by many years of school, socialization and practice. - Seth Godin
CrossFit Nick

Last night I fired up a blog to keep track of my workouts and various thoughts on fitness and nutrition. It’s probably not very interesting to most people, but there you have it :)

The modern workplace is structured completely wrong. It’s really optimized for interruptions.

Jason Fried - Why You Can’t Work at Work. Another required viewing for anyone involved in building software. Especially if you’re in a management or supervisory role ;-)

We really let people make their own decisions… Quality is the leader, and everyone has to understand that that’s what this is what it’s all about: we’re making good products together here. We’re not making your idea, or my idea, we’re making a product that’s useful for our customers.

Stanford’s Entrepreneurship Corner: David Heinemeier Hansson, 37signals - Unlearn Your MBA (Entire talk). Required viewing for any entrepreneur involved in building software.

Kind of Bloop: An 8-Bit Tribute to Miles Davis' Kind of Blue

All kinds of awesome. Totally worth the $5, particularly if you have any tendencies toward musical geekery.

The Man Your Man Could Smell Like (via NOTCOT, who has a link to the making-of [no CG!])

from mnmal

Nuit Blanche (via Motionographer, which has a link to the making-of)

What a man can be, he must be. - A.H. Maslow, A Theory of Human Motivation
Nine Questions to Ask During a Job Interview

These questions are great not just for job interviews, but for periodically asking of your current job. For example, How is success in this job measured?

Also has some good questions to avoid during an interview, a few of which I’ve been guilty of handling less than delicately myself. Oops!

A very cool visualization of the score for Beethoven’s 5th Symphony (allegro) (via halfapixelshort.com)

If you want to be at the top of the mountain, you are going to have to hike up there. - Max Hsu
Don’t give money to Haiti

Because if a charity is worth supporting, then it’s worth supporting with unrestricted funds. Looking for charities worth supporting? GlobalHand has a list.