What is in the video is pretty much common sense but needs to be said. Interesting timing as I was linked to a Workaholics self quiz today as well.
(Source: ted.com)
TED - ED Brain Trust »
I am a big fan of TED talks and they have recently announced a new section to their organisation, TED - ED Brain Trust.
Open learning seems to taken more of a forefront nowadays (as seen with MIT Open Courseware) as the Internet becomes more and more widespread and commonplace.
WTF? Unpaid crunch deserves no sympathy - Pachter
I came across the article earlier today regarding Pachter saying that unpaid overtime should be the norm and besides the fact he is an analyst and not a software developer, he is missing the point.
Dr. Mike Reddy comments on the article and raises the fact that research has shown money isn’t much of an incentive for people to do more work. Dan Pink’s Science of Motivation at a TED conference explains this further by showing people are more motivated when they feel like they matter and more importantly, trusted to do the work they have themselves set out to do.
As mentioned in an earlier post on Why I left my Games Job, I left primarily because the company made decisions that would force the developers on the team needed to work a massive amount of overtime in order to meet the deadline, not because the overtime was unpaid.
It made me feel like I didn’t matter and was just a company resource to be used. By doing so, this is a surefire way to have staff starting to look elsewhere. Compare this to companies like Fog Creak and 37signals where is clear that they treat their employees with a large amount of respect and trust (which is shown by their high staff retention), it is comparing night with day.
Very interesting video on how an LED lightbulb can be used to transfer or stream large amounts of data by flashing at frequencies that the human eye can’t detect.
While I find it hard to see it replace the radio masts that we use for phones and the such like Harold Haas mentions in the video, I can see it used in scenarios where one way data transfers are fine.
Examples being promotion videos on billboards instead of using QR codes and short range data transfer to devices instead of using USB cables.
