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Why iBook Author is Ho-Hum

by pierce • January 23, 2012 • 2 Comments

So professionally, this was an interesting week for me. Wednesday, Chegg shipped their new eReader which is the project I’ve been working on since August. It’s HTML5, and its a faithful representation of the books (more on why that’s important…

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Writing a Project Charter saved my butt

by pierce • January 18, 2012 • 0 Comments

So Chegg launched our new eReader today so I thought I would take a moment to talk about writing a Project Charter per Johanna Rothman’s excellent book on project management. Johanna recommends that for every project you sit down and…

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Job Hunting Sucks

by pierce • January 16, 2012 • 1 Comment

A friend of mine who is job hunting (he’s looking for a job in Software QA if you know of any positions) emailed me this morning for help with his job hunt. Here’s my tough-love answer: Your job right now…

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Always Learning: The Good Will Hunting Method

by pierce • July 5, 2011 • 0 Comments

There’s a scene in the movie Good Will Hunting where Matt Damon tells this stuck-up guy in a  bar: ” You blew $150,000 on an education you could have gotten for a $1.50 in late charges at the public library.”…

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Hiring Athletes instead of Bigfoot

by pierce • June 15, 2011 • 3 Comments

I was talking with a recruiter about a position at their company the other day and after reading the job requisition I commented to her that it was a “Bigfoot” requisition; the kind of req that reads “Must be a…

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Job Hunting: What I’ve learned so far

by pierce • April 28, 2011 • 0 Comments

  Background: This is the first time I’ve ever really applied myself fully to hunting for a job. Looking back, I’d always done a mediocre effort at it while simultaneously working full time. Job hunting requires 20-30 hours/week of work…

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