July, 2009

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Amazon is in-world and hiring!

All Things Distributed

Join recruiters and hiring managers from several of Amazon's global offices on July 14, 2009. We'll be in-world from 6am through midnight (Pacific/Seattle time) for the first ever Amazon Second Life Job Fair. This free event is a unique opportunity for candidates to have direct access to hiring managers and recruiters from around the world!

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Restructuring IT: A Different Look at the Business-IT Relationship

The Agile Manager

The relationship between IT and its business partners is notoriously bad. Year after year, surveys by different research organizations report that improving that relationship is a top-10 priority for CIOs. But despite being a high priority for many years running, it hasn’t improved all that much. Before we can make any headway improving that relationship, we must first understand how IT's pursuit of scale is responsible for a lot of the dysfunction.

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Learning From Monkeys

Tim Kadlec

While browsing YouTube diligently working, I stumbled upon a video showing how to open a banana like a monkey. I like bananas, and who doesn’t like monkeys, so I gave it a watch. Turns out, I’ve been opening bananas the wrong way my entire life. Basically, for those of you who haven’t seen it, it shows how a typical person opens a banana using the stem.