Maybe the best “thoughtful” video I’ve seen from Ze. I was nodding so hard during the time he was talking about interviewing candidates.

“I’ve been wanting to learn/do more X but haven’t been asked to at work.” I’m sorry, what? You have a computer at home, you have the internet, what’s stopping you?

As someone who feels compelled to create and execute the ideas that come to me, I find it hard to see true passion in those who don’t share that trait. The ones that are passionate are the ones I want to be around as friends and work with as colleagues.

Some really solid notes here – glad that much of this is re-affirmation for me rather than a “whoa, I need to re-think X” situation!

Please care about your passwords.

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Great writeup on getting XHProf installed for profiling WordPress. I’ve only used XHProf casually, but I’m a big fan.

This looks interesting enough to me that I bought an Android phone on ebay this weekend to play around with it.

So we instituted a new rule: If we are hiring you because you are awesome, then you have 30 days to do something awesome. And awesome is simply defined as me (or your supervisor) thinking to him/herself, “man, that’s awesome!” just once.

I really like this idea. I think it would encourage a new hire to feel less tentative – that they are allowed take initiative and pursue an idea. New ideas can be incredibly valuable to an organization.