My parents had the soundtrack LP from the film when I was growing up back in the 70s, I loved that (and I still have a CD). The book remains one of the very few I've read more than once.
I was riding my bike with some friends and one of them launched a challenge. This was 30 years ago and I was 17. We were climbing up a hill. Who was going to reach the old church at the top of the hill first?
Fast forward to me being ahead, miscalculating a turn before the church, and heading full-speed straight for the edge of a cliff. I couldn't brake because I'd lose control. I couldn't jump off the bike because I'd start rolling. I remembered Jonathan and how he learned acrobatic flight. I didn't have wings to barely bend but I slightly, slightly, lightly than a feather, turned the stem, and got out of trouble right at the last inch in the fastest turn ever performed on a bicycle.
> Strategies for attracting and retaining tech talent in a non-tech industry
Pay a decent amount + meaningful perks (yes insurance, no tennis table), be decent people, give them agency and let them see they're making an impact, allow them to use whatever hardware and software they think it's best to do their job, don't force them out of remote work if remote work is what they want, be decent people, be decent people, keep bureaucracy and excessive process out of their way, and last: be decent people.
Pay them well, treat them well, and let them do their jobs. If a company could only do 2 of those 3 for me, my expectations for those 2 would be through the roof:
- Pay sucks? I need to feel like the most wanted person in the world and have free rein.
- Management sucks? I better be getting rich from this, and I’m working on what I want to work on.
- I’m going to be micromanaged? Hey, let’s talk about contractor pay, and the CEO needs to name a kid after me.
If a company does all 3 things reasonably well, I’m your guy. 2 of 3, they’ll need to make up for the missing bit. Only have 1 of the 3? No way.
(Miss me with any “you sound like a prima donna” nonsense. I don’t have crazy high expectations of those things. I do have a reasonable baseline though. I don’t work for free, I don’t work for jerks, and I don’t work where I can’t have freedom to do my best job for the person paying me.)
Hi, about your homepage screenshot: please don't use round checkboxes. Round should be reserved for the universally recognizable radio buttons, and square-ish for checkboxes.
Radio buttons are for picking only one option among a group of options.
Checkboxes are for lists of options where you can pick all of them if you want.
(dev here) Thanks for the feedback. We choose circle to remain consistent with other todo applications (Todoist, iOS Reminders, etc). Semantically, these aren't selection boxes or choices per se. They are to indicate a completion action outside of the scope of a form element.
It saved my life, two times. First time inspiring me, second time literally.
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