In my 10 years of programming career, Lunatech is probably the best company to work with. Herman Miller Aeron: Ultimate Programmer’s Chair Nerf Recon CS-6 with N-Strike Darts: For fun times. 17″ Mac Book Pro with 8GB RAM, SSD running Emacs in Full Screen: Ultimate Programmer’s Computer The Joy of Clojure: The book for Ultimate [...] Read more – ‘My super cool workplace at Lunatech’.
Almost 830 days ago I started working for Hippo. And today is the last day of my work. I’d like to thank all my colleagues for helping me when I was going through difficult times, teaching me some cool stuff and generally bearing with me and tolerating me for the entire period. I think I [...] Read more – ‘Good Bye! Hippo!’.
Here’s an article by Joel Spolsky from year 2000 that provides some context for my today’s burning brain feeling. Treating your rocket scientist employees as if they were still in kindergarten is not an isolated phenomenon. Almost every company has some kind of incentive program that is insulting and demeaning. Then, you filled out optional “self-evaluation” [...] Read more – ‘On a scale of 1-6 I’m WTF’.
A lot of companies don’t like people working remotely as it is disruptive to a normal office schedule. It can also breed jealousy in the people who have to commute every day to the office. When you offer the option to people though it is amazing what can happen if you play your cards right [...] Read more – ‘On working remotely and efficiency’.
The work you take on can define you— it’s what you practice, what you get recognized for, and what you’ll be hired to do next. Passion & belief in a cause is easily a sufficiently motivating factor, as are bills that need to be paid. The way I see it— if you’re into it, do [...] Read more – ‘You Are What You Eat’.
Ninety-five percent of Dutch Microsoft employees work from home at least one day a week; a full quarter do so four out of five days. Each team has a “physical minimum;” some meet twice a week in the office, others once a quarter. Online communication and conference calls save time, fuel and paper waste. The [...] Read more – ‘More and more Dutch companies promote flexible work hours’.
At the root of all 8 hour workday issues is this. The 8 hour work day is a creativity killer. Today, human creativity is at an all time high because less and less people are working in offices. People are finding ways to make a sustainable living by tapping into their own creative potential. This [...] Read more – ‘→ Why the 8 Hour Workday Doesn’t Make Sense’.
I’ve worked for a handful of companies over the course of the last 6 years. I started all of them with a fair amount of enthusiasm, but within 5 months of each I dipped into a depression. By 7 months the work was having a tangible effect on my mood and outlook, and by nine [...] Read more – ‘In Praise of Quitting Your Job’.
Yesterday I joined the hippo professional services team for a fun filled team event with go karting evening and the first ever Golden Hippo Award event. The evening started with go karting fun, we were competing with each other. This was the first time I ever did this, I failed miserably in the qualifiers. Clearly I’m [...] Read more – ‘The First Golden Hippo’.
Last monday I've started with my new job as Product Consultant at Hippo. It has been eventful week. I started working with the JCR API/Content Management and Other Hippo Components. Here are some reflections in my understanding during last week: Read more – ‘One week with Hippo’.
