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My 2020 Vision for Graduates: How to be Optimistic in Terrible Times

Reid Hoffman

When we talk about what happens next, we often frame the conversation in reactive terms. In January 1995, it had around 100 employees. A few months later, it had 200 employees. It was 1999. But then a friend of mine from college, Peter Thiel, asked me to join his company, PayPal, as a full-time employee.

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Why Crunch Modes Doesn't Work: Six Lessons

www.igda.org

In the aftermath of ea_spouse s post on LiveJournal, quality-of-life conversations in the game development business have taken on a new life and a new urgency. What is management is trying to achieve when it sends employees off on death marches? Most software companies will fire an employee who routinely shows up drunk for work.