This is not so much a book review as a book recommendation. In fact I’m quite happy for you to stop reading this now and to go and buy Let My People Go Surfing by Yvon Chouinard it’s that good.
Still here? OK I’ll talk a little about this great book.
I bought this book to read [...]

Continuing my theme of modern and clever working arrangements…
I’ve just read Seth Godin’s latest post the new standard for meetings and conferences in which Seth says
If you’re a knowledge worker, your boss shouldn’t make you come to the (expensive) office every day unless there’s something there that makes it worth your trip. She needs to [...]

A tweet from Ryan Carson yesterday, led me to Howies about page; a page which Ryan described as “inspiring” and I can see why.
There are two sections of Howies our beliefs page that I think are fantastic:
The rocking chair test
Every product we make has passed the ‘rocking chair test’. This is something we use to [...]

I’m attending the Carsonified seminar Future of Web Design later this week and popped over to their (lovely) site to check some details; I noticed “We’re hiring!” on the homepage and thought I’d have a look.
Now I knew that Carsonified has a four day work week, but was hugely impressed by the other benefits [...]

I’ve been asked to present at a “brown bag” lunch with the subject of: What’s new in online interfaces?
I’ll cover the obvious areas of AJAX, Flash, Silverlight etc. but I’d really like to share examples of those little interface details that make as much difference as the glitzy technology - like the way you can [...]

Seth Godin has a typically brilliant post on his blog today entitled Why bother having a resume? in which he makes a very good case for not having a resume or curriculum vitae.
Seth makes some very good points in his post, among them:
A resume is an excuse to reject you. Once you send me your [...]