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The Year of the Dragon
To our very own walking-wiki Guo Lin and all our Chinese friends, we wish you a big and happy Chinese New Year! Keep Reading
Articles / Author / Shaza Hakim
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To our very own walking-wiki Guo Lin and all our Chinese friends, we wish you a big and happy Chinese New Year! Keep Reading
Perspectives
A good team is built to weather, nay encourage, the education of failures. Shaza writes her take on how every company should help employees get their bearing back, send them out there again, then get the hell out of the way. Keep Reading
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Shaza developed a habit of browsing and making snapshots of anything that visually intrigues her. She has 6 years full of this happy design baggage and hope that this post will eventually lead to a consistent series of random inspirational bits. Keep Reading
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In her spare time, when she does not spend it killing zombies, immersing in the vocalization rhythm of geckos in her neighborhood or curling up with a good book, Shaza collects, rather compulsively, tiny bits and pieces of internet that makes inspiring work looks easy. You know this roundup should be good when a Batman poster in included in the stash. Keep Reading
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In every career, your job is to make and tell stories. You will build a body of work, but you will also build a body of affection, with the people you've helped who've helped you back. But don't just sit there and wait - scour and scramble instead to get to your starting point. Then scramble some more. Be hungry. Be inquisitive. Read on and find out why. Keep Reading
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Giving someone an uninterrupted four hours time is the best gift you can give anyone at work. It's better than a computer, it's better than a new monitor, it's better than new software, or what people typically use. Giving them four hours of quiet time at the office is going to be incredibly valuable. Keep Reading
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Moleskine celebrates the 30th Pac-Man anniversary with a limited edition series featuring cover art and mini-stickers. The five-piece collection includes pocket and large hard cover notebooks, both plain and ruled, and a colorful set of 4 large Volant soft cover notebooks in celebrative packaging. Keep Reading
Field Notes
Shaza has been planning and designing websites for quite a while now and in recent years, the same notes keep creeping into our clients' revision request: "Reduce the header height, move sections upward, try to keep everything above the fold." Here's why you should stop worrying about the fold. Keep Reading
Perspectives
It is painfully clear to many employers [that there] are serious gaps between elite educational credentials and actual individual competence. College transcripts spackled with As and Bs — particularly from liberal arts and humanities programs — reveal less about a candidate’s capabilities than most serious employers need to know. Keep Reading
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Stampede v3 is the most ambitious project we have done for ourselves. But when it is finally launched, you may find it look way simpler than the actual effort - that is because the team members share the very same values that have prevailed ever since the early days of Stampede. Watch out for us. Keep Reading