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Free work: volunteer, spec, equity, and unpaid interns

January 31, 2016January 31, 2016 Kevin Browne 0 Comments

There’s few things that annoy developers, graphic designers, animators, social media managers and other ‘digital sector’ workers as much as

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Hack-a-thons negatively correlated with job performance

June 15, 2015 News Desk 3 Comments

Guest post by Kemal Ahmed (@carpetfortwo) of Communote (@communotey) [original article]     [P]rogramming contest winners are used to cranking

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Coding blindfolded

March 28, 2015March 28, 2015 Kevin Browne 0 Comments

  My favourite CUSEC talk is by Bret Victor (@worrydream) – “Inventing on Principle”. In the talk Bret goes over

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Resolution solution

January 12, 2015January 12, 2015 Kevin Browne 0 Comments

xkcd.com/189   I figure this is timely given this is when New Years resolutions are happening. The tech industry isn’t

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Best practices

December 29, 2014 Kevin Browne 0 Comments

xkcd.com/292   There’s essentially two definitions of best practices that I’ve come across: 1) Commercial or professional procedures that are

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Design for introversion

September 8, 2014 Kevin Browne 0 Comments

In a culture where being social and outgoing are prized above all else, it can be difficult, even shameful, to

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Two kinds of truth

September 4, 2014September 4, 2014 Kevin Browne 0 Comments

I’ll get back to posting some neat stuff about the tech and startup scene, once and awhile I like to

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Find something good to measure

July 8, 2014July 9, 2014 Kevin Browne 1 Comment

I’m doing a sandwich thesis for my PhD at McMaster. It involves to a collection of related papers rather than

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Network participants and organizational value

March 21, 2014March 21, 2014 News Desk 0 Comments

Originally posted on fraserkelton.com   I’ve found the discussion of providing a share of an organization’s upside to network participants

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Doing more with finite time

December 27, 2013December 27, 2013 Kevin Browne 2 Comments

About this time last year I wrote a more personal article. It’s not something I like to do often; it’s

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What is failing?

August 7, 2013August 7, 2013 Kevin Browne 0 Comments

Note: See also, Alex Pineda’s (@alexpineda77) blog post on the subject.   “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000

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