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www.oysterhr.com 3y ago

Unlocking the next gear of knowledge work

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blog.oysterhr.com 6y ago

Remote Culture, Recruiting, and Open Source

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techcrunch.com 6y ago

Distributed is to 2020 what the Cloud was in 2008

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blog.oysterhr.com 6y ago

The Evolving Relation of Compensation and Location

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blog.oysterhr.com 6y ago

The Remote Work Power Shift

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www.nexmo.com 8y ago

Anatomy of a Voice API

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www.chartcube.com 11y ago

Introducing Calculated Fields

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www.fastcolabs.com 11y ago

An App Trying to Save Your Office from Dying of Boredom

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mardack.com 11y ago

Inertia, Pain and User Acquisition

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mardack.com 11y ago

An Adventitious Growth Strategy

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www.chartcube.com 11y ago

The Wedge of Technology and the Next Era of Work

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www.chartcube.com 12y ago

A brief history of "data"

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prezi.com 13y ago

The Rational Person's Guide to the Mayan Apocalypse

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prezi.com 13y ago

The Development Process at Prezi

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prezi.com 13y ago

Prezi.com Site Outage Analysis and Timeline

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ixjy.com 13y ago

Looking forward to the Post-Facebook Social Renaissance

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ixjy.com 13y ago

In Defense of Apple and Skeuomorphism in Software Design

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ixjy.com 13y ago

NBC, the Olympics, Advertising and Evil

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ixjy.com 14y ago

Don’t let the Facebook IPO scandal distract you from a great investment

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ixjy.com 14y ago

The Social Video App Race is just getting started

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ixjy.com 14y ago

Will somebody please disrupt Poetry already

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ixjy.com 14y ago

American Inequality: Resistance may be Futile

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ixjy.com 14y ago

The Independent Artist & the Tyranny of the Gatekeeper

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ixjy.com 14y ago

The State of Race in America & Barack Obama’s 2nd Term

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ixjy.com 14y ago

Facebook Buys a Big Slice of the Social Data Set: Instagram

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ixjy.com 14y ago

The Mathematics of Responsibility

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We'll have to hope and wait and see. Bosses that want to tell you what to do will be replaced by better bosses that tell what results you should deliver. I am encouraged by sharings such as this: https://github.blog/2020-05-06-octoverse-spotlight-an-analys...

I think this "disruption" has now lasted long enough for a lot of newbie remote workers to have gotten past the initial anxiety-ridden "productivity signaling" phase, and are now hitting new strides.

ChartCube: https://chartcube.recruiterbox.com/ San Mateo, CA (Bay Area)

Lead Visual Designer: San Mateo Downtown, CA, United States Senior iOS Engineer: San Mateo Downtown, CA, United States Senior Backend Engineer: San Mateo Downtown, CA, United States

We've set our sights on disrupting the badly-broken data-to-insight-to-discussion workflow that for most business people still spreads clumsily across Excel, PPT, and email. We want to bring the data, the insights, and the discussion, together... into one thing. A ChartCube.

We are still quite small, just 5 of us. Just got our first office in downtown San Mateo and we're ready to jam. Our ambition has recently been series-A funded by Shasta Ventures, so we're good. And we enjoy the counsel of some awesome advisors in the Valley. You may note that it is unusual for a company that has not yet launched its product to receive a series-A. I think everyone who's seen the demo gets really excited. Love to show you our alpha.

We would love to hear from anyone who groks our vision and wants to get involved. There are some awesome technical opportunities posted on the jobs page: https://chartcube.recruiterbox.com/

Feel free to get in touch - jack @ chartcube.com - for any reason at all.

Thanks for the suggested perspective, Daniel. It is interesting to consider using fiction to help spread business Truths. The trouble with that notion, however, is that business is not all that profound; at least not at the level where most people actually want to be informed. It's one thing to write about BIG ideas that relate to business (like the great education in professional excellence we got from Ayn Rand in The Fountainhead). But business non-fiction is dominated by, essentially, How-To books. I find it doubtful that the mundane requirements of transferring tactical and experiential business knowledge to lay readers are compatible with producing great literature. Even the "best" non-fiction business books (like Chris Anderson's Long Tail, for example) fall far short of literary greatness. Great literary works achieve their universality and timelessness by aiming higher, and for a bigger picture. Business books are concerned predominantly with business usefulness, which has a very short shelf life.