August 2011
5 posts
“It’s not enough these days just to question authority. You’ve got to...”
– Chris Seay, TEDxHouston
“Our recompense is measured not according to ‘our success’ but...”
– Charles Bridges, via John Piper
Always hire the best candidate, Part One →
The 7 Minute Candidate Matching System from Sean Johnson on Vimeo.
It’s a familiar story – you post a position on various job boards, get bombarded with resumes (many of whom obviously…
Salt used wisely →
We have some friends who are in a program called “safe parents”. The deal is that parents who are in crisis (drug addiction, abuse, etc.) can enter the program to get advice and resources to address…
“We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.”
– François de La Rochefoucald
July 2011
5 posts
“It is an error to think that those who flee worldly affairs and engage in...”
– John Calvin
“The highest mental health is not liking myself but being joyfully interested in...”
– John Piper
“It is a universal experience that conscience is largely autonomous in its...”
– J. I. Packer, A Quest for Godliness
“What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place. Modesty has moved from...”
– G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
Life is a race →
In my twenties I was a flurry of activity. I deftly juggled dozens of balls. I burned midnight oil. I crushed it.
In my twenties I aimed for the fancy title and got it. I navigated politics. I…
May 2011
2 posts
“To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda or even in stirring...”
– Emmanuel Célestin Suhard
“People do not drift toward Holiness.
Apart from grace-driven effort, people do...”
– D.A. Carson, For the Love of God
February 2011
1 post
““Nobody is as happy as he seems on Facebook. And no one is as “spiritual”...”
– Russel Moore
January 2011
1 post
Nocturnal
Marcelo: Matthew are you around?
Matt: Matthew generally works between 11pm and 4am
Matt: he's a bat
December 2010
3 posts
“Most men don’t die of old age, they die of retirement. I read somewhere that...”
– Ralph Winter, founder of the U.S. Center for World missions
“OpenID simply stands no chance. It is like saying to people, “Hey, I...”
– Yishan Wong, What’s Wrong With OpenID? on Quora
“But here’s what I hate most about Wikileaks, and what no-one else here seems to...”
– Paul Carr - Everyone at Le Web is Wrong
November 2010
4 posts
“But aren’t there Christian reasons for extremism? Absolutely. Biblical Christian...”
– Donald Miller, The War on Extremism
Why Candor Works →
One of the more common critiques I receive from friends and colleagues is that I’m too self-deprecating. Too quick to point out my flaws or talk about challenges I’m facing. Too “humble”.
The…
“The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and...”
– J.M. Barrie, novelist and playwright (1860-1937)
More than vicarious living →
Some researchers came to Miles’ daycare today, and they tested him on a whole bunch of things – putting blocks into holes, hiding things under blankets to see if he can find them, etc. He nailed it…
October 2010
2 posts
A Bright Red Package is now free to read online →
Six years ago this week I finished writing a book about how college students can find great jobs after college. This week, I’ve decided to put the entire book online, for free.
In truth, A…
Amit Gupta likes you!: Quora: What is Amazon's... →
There is an approach called “working backwards” that is widely used at Amazon. We try to work backwards from the customer, rather than starting with an idea for a product and trying to bolt customers onto it. While working backwards can be applied to any specific product decision, using this…
September 2010
1 post
Jesus didn't preach tolerance →
dannydb:
It’s been interesting to observe the conflation of American and Christian “values,” and the naming of such values to marshall opposition to Jones’s primitive xenophobia: respect, open-mindedness, freedom of conscience.
But Jesus didn’t preach such things. Jesus preached — embodied, actually, in a way that got him killed – love. Risky, radical, costly, inconvenient love. Messy,...
July 2010
1 post
Is social justice evil? →
There has been a backlash lately against churches and Christian leaders who advocate for social and economic justice. Spearheaded by Glenn Beck, they are arguing that messages of social justice are…
May 2010
1 post
Entitlement and the rule of economic well-being →
When I was in high school, my step-dad bought into a startup and became the CEO. The company had an amazing opportunity to bring enterprise software to a mid-market that had been eager to implement…
January 2010
2 posts
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not;...”
– @blankenship
Small Things With Great Love →
I’ve been fretting for the last few weeks about 2010.
Every year in December I take an inventory of the past year, and develop goals for the year ahead. Historically those goals have been…
December 2009
2 posts
4 things I learned in 2009 →
It’s been a crazy year. A new home, a new job, a baby. For the last six weeks, the combination of lack of sleep, diapers and holiday insanity has rendered my brain mostly useless. With 2009 coming…
Why I gave away my company to charity - Derek... →
davemorin:
This is pretty neat.
November 2009
3 posts
“The problem with saving the world is that change has no constituency. There is...”
– Eric Loewen, nuclear engineer
October 2009
3 posts
Microvation and the radical transformation of your... →
One of the more common complaints about one’s job is the inability to “get your ideas heard.” At every company I’ve been a part of, there was a large faction of people who lament over drinks about…
The one-step servant leadership test →
The servant leader is a unique and rare animal. Anyone who’s been blessed to work with a boss who demonstrates servant leadership knows what a dramatic impact it can have on employee morale and…
Leaders, Followers, and Admirers →
Lots of people want to be leaders. A lot fewer people want to be followers. Being a follower isn’t sexy. No one will invite you to speak at a conference or write a book about how to be a good…
September 2009
6 posts
“If you watched a movie about a guy who wanted a Volvo and worked for years to...”
– Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
Recession-proof yourself, part two: care more →
Most people think that they care about what they do - they want to do a good job, want to be a valuable member of the team. But I haven’t met a ton of people who I’d say want to be the best. Not…
1095 Days of Awesome →
Of all the decisions I’ve made in my life, by far the best one was to ask Michelle to marry me. While I’m sure I could have met someone else and been reasonably happy, there’s no way my life would…
August 2009
1 post
“Did you know that now, thanks to iPhone, you can use location services to tell...”
– The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: Food for thought (via hellofriend) (via wintercheck) (via superamit)
July 2009
5 posts
“When I get honest, I admit I am a bundle of paradoxes. I believe and I doubt, I...”
– Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel
iPlotz - instant wireframing →
Consider this skeptic converted.
My new boss suggested that I use iPlotz for wireframing in my product development process. Being a pen and paper kind of guy, I was not too keen on the idea - I…
Eight Life Hacks →
My buddy David Kadavy called me out and asked me for my eight life hacks - the eight things that make me feel like I’m “cheating the system.” I usually ignore this kind of stuff, but this…
June 2009
19 posts
“She or he who works the hardest has one hell of an advantage.
She or he who is...”
– Tom Peters, Get Up Earlier Than The Next Guy
“We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the never-ending...”
– John Steinbeck, East of Eden (via Blankenship)