March 29, 2007
Why Two Screens
We've standardized on two screens here at TheLadders.com -- all employees have two computer monitors on their desk, and some have 3. One lunatic even has four! ;)
My VP, Technology dug up this article on the improved productivity:
Another part of the article he found interesting was:
Gloria Mark compares this to the way that people work when they are "co-located" - sitting next to each other in cubicles - versus how they work when they are "distributed," each working from different locations and interacting online. She discovered that people in open-cubicle offices suffer more interruptions than those who work remotely. But they have better interruptions, because their co-workers have a social sense of what they are doing. When you work next to other people, they can sense whether you're deeply immersed, panicking or relatively free and ready to talk - and they interrupt you accordingly.
Workspace design is so important for productivity!
Posted by marc at March 29, 2007, 11:45 AM
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Groundhog Day
Groundhog Day would probably make my Top Ten favorite movies, and for some reason thinking of this quote today:
When Chekhov saw the long winter, he saw a winter bleak and dark and bereft of hope. Yet we know that winter is just another step in the cycle of life. But standing here among the people of Punxsutawney and basking in the warmth of their hearths and hearts, I couldn't imagine a better fate than a long and lustrous winter.
There are some pretty great philosophical reflections on the movie here and here:
What is so powerful about Groundhog Day is the way it lets us experience what it would be like to make a breakthrough like this in our own lives. The movie shows us a character who is like the worst in ourselves. He is arrogant and sarcastic, absorbed in his own discomforts, without hope, and cut off from other people. Like us, he finds himself in an inexplicable situation, seemingly a plaything of fate. But, unlike us, he gets the luxury of being stuck in the same day until he gets it right. Whereas most of us go semi-automatically through most of our (very similar) days, he is forced to stop and treat each day like a world onto itself, and decide how to use it. In the end, he undergoes a breakthrough to a more authentic self in which intimacy, creativity and compassion come naturally - a self that was trapped inside him and that could only be freed by trapping him. Like many of the heroes of fiction, he can only escape his exile from himself by being exiled in a situation not of his choosing.
So if you haven't seen it before, go out and buy Groundhog Day
Posted by marc at March 29, 2007, 10:57 AM
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March 26, 2007
Fair & Balanced: My Interview on FOX
Here's me discussing the "Seven Deadly Sins of Interviewing" on Fox!
Posted by marc at March 26, 2007, 07:20 PM
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Dog Playing Virtual Soccer
Yep, I found Dog Playing Virtual Soccer to be pretty funny.
Posted by marc at March 26, 2007, 05:05 PM
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March 11, 2007
Change Jobs Like Clothes? Click Here
Fun historical look back at the Online Recruitment industry from a June 2000 article here.
Posted by marc at March 11, 2007, 06:27 AM
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Influences
This is a super-cool video that I saw at TED:
I need to let you know that you're the artist in my winter!
The band is Elephine from Minneapolis, and I think this song's energy is enough to keep an entire city going through a long cold winter night indeed! The crescendo that begins in the final 51 seconds is what music shoud be all about.
Posted by marc at March 11, 2007, 06:09 AM
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