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)
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.
Owl In Flight, via Reddit
The New Cavemen Lifestyle Has Found a Home in the City
The cavemen are happy in the modern world, they say, but simply want to regain the fortitude that they attribute to their ancient ancestors.
Where’s that wildness that allowed humans to flourish throughout history?
A fun, albeit ever so slightly tongue-in-cheek, look at hardcore Paleo devotees in New York City.
Agile Pyramids
Snofru was, in my opinion, the first adopter of Agile principles. His “employees” trusted him enough to be able to push back when the plan needed revising. He trusted them right back not to yank his chain about things being too steep. He made his mistakes up front, which taught him lessons about his domain, and it enabled him to be successful in the long run
From the Pivotal Labs blog.
Alex Payne — Don't Be A Hero
Everyone else is writing code, sure, but the hero is writing code at the office at four in the morning. That’s real, real in a way that a bunch of commits from the rest of the team aren’t, real in a way that’s particularly visible to managers. The hero is celebrated. The hero is a role model.
Here’s the thing: the hero is the most damaging person on a team.
The Best Times to Buy Anything, All Year Round
A neat guide from LifeHacker that compiles all the best times of the year to buy various products. It even includes some good links to seasonal food information, like the Epicurious Seasonal Ingredient Map.
The NorCal Margarita
The fitness geeks at CrossFit have been turning me into something of a nutrition geek of late. Along those lines, Robb Wolf’s blog and Paleolithic Solution podcast have been hugely informative. Rather than attempt to summarize the paleo diet here, I encourage you to check out Robb’s blog and podcast if you are at all into exercise and nutrition. Good stuff.
One particular gem of a discovery is the NorCal Margarita. It’s a tasty adult beverage that the nutrition geek can enjoy, thanks to science!
- 2–3 shots of 100% agave tequila.
- Juice and pulp from one lime.
- Shake it all up with some ice.
- Add soda water to taste.
Also, I’ve found that it can help to make a few of them at a time, to average out the different sizes of limes.
This drink is wonderful, for a few reasons:
- Tequila is delicous.
- Tequila is fermented agave juice, which makes it gluten- or and starch-free. Gluten, as nutrition geeks know, is a gut irritant and just generally bad stuff, and starches are way too dense with unnecessary carbs. Rum could likewise work well here.
- Lime juice blunts the insulin response of the alcohol, maintaining your precious and hard-earned insulin sensitivity.
- The lime juice also provides a net alkaline load when it gets to the blood stream, which is a good thing. Most other foods provide a net acid load, and it’s nice to balance that out.
- The carbon dioxide bubbles in the soda water help get the ethanol into your blood more quickly. This has the practical effect of allowing you to drink a bit less for the same effect.
Yum!
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