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Man at Work

Professional life, work, corporate culture

I’m Writing a Book!

In Design Discourse, I've Journal, Man at Work on 16 July 2008 tagged book, lou rosenfeld, rosenfeld media with no comments

photo by chotda

After two years of discussions with Lou Rosenfeld, I’ve finally signed with his publishing company, Rosenfeld Media, to write a book entitled See What I Mean: How to Use Comics to Communicate Ideas. For those that don’t know, Rosenfeld Media is like an O’Reilly for user experience books. They focus on compact, practical [...]

Open Hack Day, UK

In Geeky, Man at Work on 1 May 2007 tagged hack, yahoo! with no comments

Beck at Yahoo! Open Hack Day by Laughing Squid / Scott Beale

Last October, Yahoo! held an Open Hack Day where we brought in developers and designers in the Bay Area to work on whatever they wanted to, and invited them to utilize Yahoo! APIs to make cool hacks … and that’s what people did. From [...]

The Kind of Place I’d Work At

In Man at Work on 30 April 2007 tagged brickhouse, connected ventures, culture, trilogy, vimeo, yahoo! with no comments

Back when I worked at Trilogy in Austin, it was during the first dot com boom. Trilogy did a lot of things typical to the era: free kitchens with snack bars and soda, open bar parties, keg parties on Friday afternoons and ridiculous company paid trips to Vegas and even the Bahamas.

One thing they did [...]

Who Wants a Job?

In Man at Work on 28 February 2007 tagged linkedin, networking with 5 comments

The Bay Area is hopping lately and people keep asking if I know anyone I can recommend.

“Know any designers?”

“Know any good Flash people?”

“Know any good web developers?”

I wish there was an easy way on LinkedIn to automatically link these people together. I equally get people [...]

The Pipes Team Shout Out

In I've Journal, Man at Work on 8 February 2007 tagged bradley horowitz, caterina fake, daniel raffel, edward ho, jonathan trevor, leonard lin, Man at Work, pasha sadri, pipes, yahoo! with 3 comments

I tagged a bunch of people in my last post but I wanted to do a proper shout out because the talent is really phenomenal and worth talking about in more detail. The Pipes team started in September with four people:

Pasha Sadri: the man with the idea, who also came up [...]

Rewire the Web

In I've Journal, Man at Work on 7 February 2007 tagged daniel raffel, edward ho, jonathan trevor, Man at Work, pasha sadri, pipes, yahoo! with 12 comments

The project I’ve been deep into for the past few months, Pipes, has finally launched! I worked with an awesome group of people to put this out and we did it in an amazingly short time. I only joined the team in November and they started work on it in September. I do think of [...]