Motivating Smart People

Motivating Smart People

The challenge of motivating and recognizing achievement for smart people is one that faces every engineering manager. I have worked in both large corporations and small startups and I have seen a lot of not too great practices in this regard. The favorite of corporate...
Users Will Customize Their UX

Users Will Customize Their UX

A Rube Goldberg machine exhibited in Alinghi’s base (2007 in Valencia), an extremis of the customized UX I recently ran across an interesting Kickstarter called Flic. It’s an incredibly simple concept – a physical button, that you can stick anywhere...