I’ve been a fan of The Art of War—the famous Chinese military treatise written in the 6th century B.C.—for a long time. Particularly, the Lionel Giles translation which was originally published in 1910 and is now in the public domain (and in digital e-book form thanks to Project Gutenberg). I’ve been wanting to do a [...]

This Joel on Software article (of Fog Creek Software) got me thinking about this a while ago and Web Worker Daily reminded me again today. Maybe I just had a string of bad experiences, but I honestly don’t think I’ll ever want to re-enter the traditional workforce. When I was much younger—in high school and [...]