Mid of the week on the mid of the October already. Jakarta weather are starting to get wet and the accompanying trend of sore throat will soon follow. I got mine already. So i hope you guys stay healthy and heres this week recommended readings to make your day more positive
Drake Ballew on Lesson from the rise of Tao Bao
Unless youre living under totally disconnected rock, youve probably heard about the Chinese e-commerce titan Jack Ma. Especially after record breaking Alibaba’s IPO. In this post, Drake Ballew tells the story about how Jack Ma’s Tao Bao beat eBay and whats the lesson that can be learn. As a compliment to this article, i suggest to watch this talk by Jack several years ago. He gave enlighting yet incredibly honest speech.
Sacha Greif on Lesson learned from making projects open source
I associated open source development with all things positive and full of selfless contributor. But is it always like that ?. Sacha Greif is a developer of Telescope, an open source Hacker News-type app built with the Meteor JavaScript framework. After 2 years of founding, developing and becoming BDFL for Telescope, she learnt that creating an open source apps actually a lot harder than making it close. The article is very personal and highlights challenges in open source development which are not widely known.
Slate on What happen when companies opens up their salaries information
Buffer, an application to simply manage multiple social media account, made a daring move to open up their whole salary structure to the public. Employees is able to know how much their colleague or boss makes. With current norm of treating salary as a very private matter, does this move brings good impact to buffer ? Apparently it is.
Canva’s tutorial on Font pairing
As i wrote previously, great thing about Canva is they put easy to follow tutorial like this for creating professional design in an easy way. Check out this one on font pairing.
Paul Graham on Before the startup
YC founder Paul Graham breaks down in detail several things you need to know before starting a startup. Apparently, startup is one thing in life that you will do better if you don’t follow your instinct. This topic is also delivered in the YC How to start a startup class in Stanford hence you can watch the video here.
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