Seems like Fred Wilson is getting bubbled, investing in a search engine for Reddit users (of which I am a proud one). I hope it was a small investment.
I hated headphones with passion until I found a pair of earbud plug style phones with small plugs. And they are under 20 bucks. They don't isolated aot of noise, just low background chatter. Anything louder is completely ridiculous (yet common).
If you are talking about Gallery the abysmal Android photo viewing app-attempt, I wouldn't lump that in with your list of impressive technical achievements. I hope you are referring to the web album builder or something else.
When the internship days are done, people learn that a good experience and good pay is more, personally rewarding than prestige. Prestige doesn't feed the chickens.
This is alluded to in a sidebar that undermines the title of the article. The author seems to be too invested in the original idea to fully correct it. Obviously cubes are spike when measured from any origin point.
Well it suggests? That study had minimal controls for correlating factors, only alcohol and red meat, nothing about careers and lifestyles that correlate to coffee consumption. Less likely to die from "accidents" is an especially suspicious measurement.
If it is so valuable to your productivity, why not buy your own kit (outside of security managed OS) and finance it out of the big raise or reduced work hours you need to produce? If your management doesn't reward productivity, it is more a babysitting arrangement than an enterprise, so you should work on your startup in your unproductive time a work.
Cultivate a less intimidating environment. I jabber all week and clam up in a 1, even with a nice manager.
ask people to write down their thoughts during he week, email them to you or jot down notes, then discuss the notes in the 1:1. And if you ever show a hint of condescension or retaliation for feedback, it will never appear again.