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October 21, 2005
Flock is awesome
I just downloaded the Developer Preview of Flock. It is based on Firefox (not a fork), but also integrates del.icio.us, blogging, RSS, Flickr, and other related features and services, in an incredibly elegant way.
Here's a good list that shows what Flock is focused on.
Flock plans
to build tools that empower people and smooth out some of the more hairy parts of living and working online. As it is, we live and breathe this stuff everyday and wanted better tools to do the things that we love doing online.
I am really looking forward to seeing Flock develop. I'll be using it as my primary Web browser until I find bugs (this is a development preview after all) too significant to work around.
Posted by pete at 5:50 AM
October 11, 2005
I wish my technical buddies would have told me this
Listened to my first podcast from Manager Tools today. Topic is "Solution to a Stalled Technical Career," answering a question--well, a whole topic of questions--that most technical people will ask themselves at some point in their career; I've certainly asked it a lot myself over the years.
Why don't people in <department X> get how important we are/how smart we are/that we should rule the world? Why don't managers get it, why don't they get what we do/how smart we are/that we should rule the world? Why do people disagree with me, when they (should) know that I'm right? Why do I have to go into management to make more money/be more influential/tell people what to do/rule the world? Why do the people who "play the game" always get ahead/make more money/get promoted/are liked by upper management, when clearly they don't know anything? Why can't this company/my manager/department X appreciate how valuable I am/smart I am/much this company depends on me?
A lot of the (often unsolicited) advice I got was exactly the wrong advice, and probably made it harder to figure out the right answers.
I wish I would have heard something like this podcast, it would have saved me a lot of years of frustration.
Since I can't save myself those years, maybe I can save them for you. If you are in a technical career (of any sort), or planning to, do yourself a favor and listen to this, and remember it when everyone else is "advising" you.
Posted by pete at 6:22 PM