First Follower: Leadership Lessons from Dancing Guy
One of the best videos about leadership I've seen:
Three ways to make ajax callbacks with jQuery
Making ajax calls with jQuery is pretty easy. Beyond easy really. A basic set up looks like this:
I realize that jQuery comes with shortcuts like $.get and $.post, but I like using the full ajax call because it can be a little clearer for me. However the shortcuts can be very good, clear alternatives.
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Solitude and Leadership
I read a fantastic article on leadership. While there a number of gems, his thoughts on bureaucracies was very interesting.
That’s really the great mystery about bureaucracies. Why is it so often that the best people are stuck in the middle and the people who are running things—the leaders—are the mediocrities? Because excellence isn’t usually what gets you up the greasy pole. What gets you up is a talent for maneuvering. Kissing up to the people above you, kicking down to the people below you. Pleasing your teachers, pleasing your superiors, picking a powerful mentor and riding his coattails until it’s time to stab him in the back. Jumping through hoops. Getting along by going along. Being whatever other people want you to be, so that it finally comes to seem that,...you have nothing inside you at all. Not taking stupid risks like trying to change how things are done or question why they’re done. Just keeping the routine going.
It’s tough speaking truth to power, and much easier to just stay quiet. I find that sometime when someone is branded a troublemaker, it may be they are just curious. It’s a long read, but worth it.
The software program that I think gets it right
The software program that I think gets it right, business acumen aside, is Netflix. I think there are three areas that they get right.
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What is your mobile strategy?
I've been sitting in on a few design meetings over the pass few weeks, and the one thing I was absolutly looking to hear is how a person or company is approaching mobile when building applications or websites. What I'm hoping to hear is "we don't have one"
At this point a mobile stategy is not a seperate idea, but a part of the whole strategy. A company that spins out mobile as a seperate line item is the same as saying to me, that making a site semantic is an extra cost, or using css is a extra cost. In my mind making a site look it’s best on any device is part of the job and working out the best way to serve your user and within your technical capabilities
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