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Unreasonable requests: how do you push back? | The Corporate Writer

The Push Back Process — Step 1: Get out the anger in a safe environment or the right person! (Never a coworker!) Step 2: Write what you want to say in your most down-and-dirty, no editing way. Step 3: Rewrite your comments by putting as much as possible in the third-person, objective case. Cut out […]

A former Google exec on how to make tough decisions quickly – Quartz

there’s relatively little written about how to develop the institutional and employee muscle necessary to make speed a serious competitive advantage. I believe that speed, like exercise and eating healthy, can be habitual. Source: A former Google exec on how to make tough decisions quickly – Quartz

How to motivate and inspire your people in difficult times

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the French aviator and author of “The Little Prince”, wrote, “If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.” Source: How to motivate and inspire your people in difficult […]

CKWaveCollectionViewTransition

This is a cool custom transition between two or more UICollectionViewControllers with wave like cell animation. Could be used in e.g. galleries. Source: CezaryKopacz/CKWaveCollectionViewTransition

Additional Recommended Steps for New Ubuntu 14.04 Servers | DigitalOcean

After setting up the bare minimum configuration for a new server, there are some additional steps that are highly recommended in most cases. In this guide, we’ll continue the configuration of our servers by tackling some recommended, but optional procedures. Source: Additional Recommended Steps for New Ubuntu 14.04 Servers | DigitalOcean

This 90-Day Plan Turns Engineers into Remarkable Managers – First Round Review

There’s an all-too-common cycle in tech these days. Startup avoids management. Founder makes all the decisions. Startup gets traction. Hiring takes off. Management is suddenly needed. Founder turns to his best engineer: “I’m drowning. Can you manage this team for me?” Source: This 90-Day Plan Turns Engineers into Remarkable Managers – First Round Review

tauCharts

D3 based data-focused charting library. Source: TargetProcess/tauCharts

PINCache

Fast, non-deadlocking parallel object cache for iOS and OS X Source: pinterest/PINCache

A Size Class Reference Guide

The iOS Human Interface Guidelines describe the size classes used by full screen iPad and iPhone devices but do not (yet) include the various slide over and split screen combinations. In any case finding or remembering the details is tricky so after a few minutes with OmniGraffle here, for future reference, is my guide: Source: […]