Linked-in endorsements are a handy easy button.

Endorsements are a good feature. I’m always behind on writing recommendations and this gives me an easy out for people that I haven’t written a recommendation for yet. If you don’t like this showing up on your profile you can hide that section. Hopefully linked-in will hear our concerns and improve this feature further. A lot of you seem to want to selectively delete individual endorsements. I hope they don’t waste their time on that. All I want is a button that says “never ask me to endorse person X again”. ...

March 27, 2013 · 1 min · 91 words · Christopher Hicks

11 Simple Concepts to Become a Better Leader

Led to https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20130128162711-15077789-11-simple-concepts-to-become-a-better-leader/ which still sounds like very good advice when I’m re-reeading it in 2024.

February 24, 2013 · 1 min · 16 words · Christopher Hicks

defunct wow!

Wow! Note: I now have no idea what this led to.

February 12, 2013 · 1 min · 11 words · Christopher Hicks

Landing a job at one particular company

http://lnkd.in/DKreG3 is sound advice for anyone that really wants a job at one particular company. That led to http://news.dice.com/2013/02/06/red-hat/ which is no longer available.

February 8, 2013 · 1 min · 24 words · Christopher Hicks

Arduino-Controlled RGB Lamp

(I’m not sure what this poined to now.) Arduino-Controlled RGB Lamp An awesome lamp that you can control from your laptop. There is a video of the lamp in action.

January 20, 2013 · 1 min · 30 words · Christopher Hicks

defunct linked-in 2013-01-18 15:27:44

Linked-in would tell me anymore so I’m not sure what I was sharing here.

January 18, 2013 · 1 min · 14 words · Christopher Hicks

A month to yourself

I shared https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20121009151419-197425497-a-month-to-yourself/ where Jason Fried says: Here’s why I gave my company a month to work on whatever they wanted: http://www.inc.com/magazine/201209/jason-fried/why-company-a-month-off.html

October 17, 2012 · 1 min · 22 words · Christopher Hicks

Why does spam get archived in hours?

Why does spam get archived in hours? Repeatedly across numerous groups I try to flag spam in Linked-In groups and I find that the message is already archived. I only found out about these posts because of the daily Linked-In emails, so these posts are being archived in less than a day, often in single digit hours. How could this be? The link associated with this post was meant to be an example, but the message board post is http://www.linkedin.com/groupAnswers?viewQuestionAndAnswers=&discussionID=134866365&gid=1268377&trk=eml-anet_dig-b_nd-pst_ttle-cn&ut=0WocEMpkIQr5k1 ...

July 17, 2012 · 1 min · 186 words · Christopher Hicks

Defunct job post

Post content is all gone, but it seems I was posting about a job. share_url is https://lnkd.in/9_S5Y7 which led to https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/2909181/ which is gone now. media_url is http://media01.linkedin.com/mpr/mpr/shrink_60_60/p/2/000/07b/08a/21ad46d.png

May 14, 2012 · 1 min · 28 words · Christopher Hicks

LibreOffice is superior

How LibreOffice Writer Tops MS Word: 12 Features in Datamation.com. Not only is it free. Not only do you get the source code. You also get stability, more useful features, and portability across Linux/Mac/win. It is hard to beat the utter satisfaction of using a friendly featureful free alternative to bloated buggy expensive commercial software. Many of your friends and colleagues may be stuck in the you-get-what-you-pay-for mindset and missing out on this chance to save money and sanity, so spread the word when opportunity presents. ...

April 20, 2012 · 1 min · 86 words · Christopher Hicks