Making decisions quickly allows us to move quickly. We need to know which decisions we have to make, and have them presented for easy deciding

A First Team mindset is the idea that leaders prioritize supporting their fellow leaders over supporting their direct reports—that they are responsible to their peers more than they are to their individual teams. If you’re not entirely onboard with that concept, I get it. It took me a while to come around to it myself.

Why do desktop environments increasingly degrade the desktop UX that once used to be straightforward and “common sense”? Is there a secret plan to cripple the desktop experience by infecting it with less suitable UX concepts invented for mobile phones? In this series, I will look at recent worrisome trends in desktop Linux usability and contrast them with the thoughts of the very inventors of the desktop metaphor as we know it. 

For an upcoming project, I need to extract level data from the classic 1985 video game Super Mario Bros (SMB). More precisely, I want to extract the background imagery for each stage of the game, excluding HUD elements and moving sprites, etc. Of course, I could just stitch together images from the game, and perhaps automate this process with computer vision techniques. But I think the method described below is more interesting, and allows for inspection of elements of the level perhaps not exposed through screenshots. 

We talk a lot about associate success and retention and when I came across this article I found it to be a good read, not just for managers but individual contributors as well.  Because we (Red Hat) tell our employees that they own their careers I found the "They tell you. And you listen" to be quite important.