I’ve had a pile of reclaimed wood sitting up on my lumber rack for about a year now waiting for that perfect project. I wanted to build something with this old tongue and groove barn wood that would keep with the spirit, so I designed some plans for an antique wooden storage chest.
To build something distinctive in the marketplace, you first have to build something distinctive in the workplace. The author argues that “shocking rules” are a building block of a powerful culture. In other words, if you’re doing things at your company that outsiders can’t quite understand, you may just be doing it right. The article includes a few company examples, including one from Amazon. Jeff Bezos insisted for years, even as Amazon was growing by leaps and bounds, that desks at the company “were built by buying cheap doors from Home Depot and nailing legs to them.” Of course, a company with tens of thousands of employees and billions of dollars in revenue could pay for elegant desks for its programmers and executives. But this shocking rule reminded everyone that “We look for every opportunity to save money so we can deliver the best products for the lowest cost.”
In this tutorial you’ll learn how to create a responsive full-screen slideshow with plain JavaScript. To build it, we’ll go through several different front-end tricks. As a bonus, we’ll go a step further and customize the cursor’s appearance as we hover over the slideshow.
Most people average just two hours and 48 minutes of productive time a day. The good news is two hours of intense focus can yield more results than a day loaded with meetings, emails, calls, and tasks.
Here’s how to make the most of it.
Once upon a time, we all thought the world was going to end on January 1, 2000. Two decades after the panic of the century, it’s time to finally hear from the people who spent years—and billions of dollars—making sure it didn’t.