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25 May 19:18

Deliver Insanely Great Service with Saleae. Join the Team!

by Joe Garrison

Apply Here

Work directly with founders Joe & Mark to develop and deliver five-star customer service to the heroes who depend on our Logic product.

Saleae is seeking to reinvent electrical engineering test equipment, and we need four rock solid competencies to do it.  One of these four is Insanely Great Service.

Insanely Great Service means very low latency response, crystal clear and accurate technical answers, pain-minimized problem resolutions, and genuine warmth and positivity.  It also means relentless continuous improvement of the service platform though lean-startup-style experimentation, instrumentation & analytics, and high-cadence A/B testing of improvements.

The role you are applying for has two components, each expected to take about 50% of your time: (1) deliver Insanely Great Service directly to customers via phone, web-chat, email, Twitter, Facebook, etc., and (2) run a sprint driven process of continuous improvement involving instrumentation & analytics, maintaining a prioritized backlog of testable improvement ideas, and building out and A/B testing the most promising ideas.

Responsibilities

  • Hands-on delivery of Insanely Great Service (~3-4 hours/day)
    • Quickly respond to incoming customer communications via phone, website chat, email, Twitter, Facebook, and the community forum.
    • Provide extremely clear, technically accurate, and appropriate answers to customer questions.
    • Provide straightforward and pain free solutions to all customer problems with Saleae products.
    • Ensure customers receive warm, empathetic, and positive communications consistently.
  • Drive continuous improvement in the support platform (remaining time)
    • Instrument and monitor key support metrics
    • Use analytics to continuously improve our understanding of the customer support funnel
    • Maintain a prioritized backlog of testable improvement ideas
    • Each sprint, run a complete continuous improvement loop:
      • Implement new/improved functionality or content
      • Deploy changes as A/B tests
      • Analyze results and generate new ideas, insights, questions, and/or tests.
    • Develop and maintain any necessary standards, service-level commitments, controls, and/or procedures related to customer service/solutions.
  • Advocate for the customer within the organization; fight for improvements in product and marketing based on your evolving insight into the customer.

Qualifications

  • Very high interpersonal skills; highly empathetic, warm, and positive.
  • Extreme clarity of communication, written and verbal.
  • Broad electrical engineering and embedded system knowledge & experience, including:
    • Firmware & embedded system development
    • Analog electronics fundamentals
    • Board-level design & debug
  • Passion for engineering as evidenced by past and/or current side projects.
  • Passion for service excellence, including self-service.
  • Ideal: Compelling technical writer
  • Ideal: Intuition and experience around user experience (UX) design, in particular software/web – UX wireframes; sketches.
  • Ideal: Practical front-end web development (html/css/js) ability and recent experience.

Quick Experience Survey

Please fill out this multiple-choice experience survey before submitting your application.

Apply Here

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29 Mar 19:38

The Secrets, Tactics, and Creative Processes of High Performers and Achievers — Debbie Millman

by Tim Ferriss


“No amount of money, no amount of security is ever going to give you the sense that this is the right time.”
– Debbie Millman

This is round two for Debbie Millman, whose first interview on this show quickly became one of the most downloaded episodes of all time (listen to it here).

Graphic Design USA has named Debbie Millman (@debbiemillman) “one of the most influential designers working today.” She is also the founder and host of Design Matters, the world’s first and longest-running podcast about design, where she’s interviewed nearly 300 design luminaries and cultural commentators including Massimo Vignelli and Milton Glaser.

Debbie’s done it all. Her artwork has been exhibited around the world. She’s designed everything from wrapping paper to beach towels, greeting cards to playing cards, notebooks to t-shirts, and Star Wars merchandise to global Burger King rebrands.

Debbie is the President Emeritus of AIGA (one of only five women to hold the position in the organization’s one-hundred-year history), the editorial and creative director of Print magazine, and the author of six books. In 2009, Debbie co-founded (with Steven Heller) the world’s first masters program in branding at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, which has received international acclaim.

This time around, Debbie answers the most popular questions submitted by you, the listeners. Topics include:

  • How to turn down stability for opportunity.
  • How Debbie made the leap and continues to try new things.
  • How to outsmart the competition in any job.
  • The future of graphic design.
  • Debbie’s own personal creative process.
  • The most valuable lessons Debbie has learned about designing an ideal life for herself.

Here’s Debbie Millman’s round two. Enjoy!

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Want to hear my first episode with Debbie Millman? — Listen to this episode, where we discuss how to recover from rejection, how to overcome personal crises of faith, class exercises from her most impactful mentors, and much more. (stream below or right-click here to download):



This podcast is brought to you by 99Designs, the world’s largest marketplace of graphic designers. I have used them for years to create some amazing designs. When your business needs a logo, website design, business card, or anything you can imagine, check out 99Designs.

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Wealthfront monitors your portfolio every day across more than a dozen asset classes to find opportunities for rebalancing and harvesting tax losses, and now manages more than $5B in assets. Unlike old-fashioned private wealth managers, Wealthfront is powered by innovative technology, making it the most tax-efficient, low-cost, hassle-free way to invest. Go to wealthfront.com/tim to take the risk assessment quiz, which only takes 2-5 minutes, and it’ll show you — for free — exactly the portfolio it would recommend. If you want to just take the advice and do it yourself, you can. Or, as I would, you can set it and forget it. Well worth a few minutes: wealthfront.com/tim. As a Tim Ferriss Show listener, you’ll get your first $15,000 managed for free if you decide to go with its services.

QUESTION(S) OF THE DAY: What was your favorite quote or lesson from this episode? Please let me know in the comments.

Scroll below for links and show notes…

Selected Links from the Episode

  • Connect with Debbie Millman:

Twitter | Website | Facebook | Instagram | Design Matters Podcast

Show Notes

  • What if, while writing out what life will look like in ten years (Debbie’s exercise from the first episode), multiple potential lives emerge? How do you choose the best one? [06:57]
  • Is there a right time to turn down stability for opportunity? [08:27]
  • How can someone avoid becoming a commodity and stand out in a ruthlessly competitive market? [13:23]
  • The future is not specific to — or barred from — any discipline. [15:14]
  • How can we prevent ourselves from being paralyzed by the act of creation — especially when we feel like our work pales in comparison to the work of others? [15:34]
  • How does Debbie cope with imposter syndrome? [18:03]
  • What’s the one thing you want more than anything that you’re willing to sacrifice everything else to get? [18:40]
  • What is Debbie’s creative process? [20:37]
  • The intentional first impression. [22:23]
  • How does Debbie ensure a healthy balance between work and play? [29:26]
  • Debbie’s favorite visual artists? [33:10]
  • Common threads Debbie has noticed in her interviews with creative high achievers. [33:24]
  • What are the qualities of a good design student? [34:51]
  • Who’s the first person to come to mind when Debbie hears the word “successful?” [35:23]
  • Something Debbie believes that other people think is insane. [36:02]
  • Favorite documentary or movie. [36:32]
  • Morning rituals: her first sixty minutes of the day. [36:59]
  • Obsessions explored on evenings and weekends. [37:31]
  • Best investment of time, money, energy, or other resources. [37:52]
  • Notable quotes Debbie lives by or thinks of often. [38:43]
  • What would Debbie’s billboard say? [39:26]
  • What advice would Debbie give her younger self? [40:43]

People Mentioned

26 Apr 16:42

Cool things to check out while I’m gone

by jlcollinsnh

Jake in Maine

Jake the Wonder Dog

At his Maine vacation home visiting Venice, Amy and Bill

Please note:

Due to travels I will be away from the blog and unable to respond to comments/questions until after May 22. 

Meanwhile, here’s a collection of random cool stuff I’ve been collecting for you to enjoy.

Including these two recent interviews:

How scavenger can achieve financial independence

Master your money summit: The Simple Path to Wealth

Thanks to Hahna and Jay, my interviewers, I think they are two of the best so far. Hope you enjoy listening as much as I enjoyed recording them!*

Ciao!

Worth remembering how unpredictable future predictions really are

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murmurations

 

Sea gypies

Trisha Ray and the Myanmar Sea Gypsies

Meanwhile in Africa…

 phone on boat

african truck overload

bike and goat

ape with rifle

lions on car

We love these things. Crunchy on the outside, chewy in the middle.

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Largest statue in Africa

And in Peru:

Weaving the Q’eswachaka Bridge, a short video

Children Playing (22)

Vintage photos of children playing

eagles, hunting with

Hunting in Mongolia with Eagles

Bently cartoon

catroon- not sex

 Cartoons to think about

Wait but Why diagrams to blow your mind:

Putting Time into Perspective

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Clapper Bridges

motorbike loaded with kids

For my fellow It’s Better in the Wind riders, remember: Safety first!

I think Elon Musk and SpaceX are incredible and deserving of high praise, but…

 this clip is too cool

…not to include. Plus I’m sure they’ll get past it. Just another (dramatic) learning experience.

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Other strange facts 

The Rise of Humankind in one 5-minute video

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This, and other deserted photos by Polly Tootal

“It was no different with my father. In fact, his death was even more unexpected. He was gone at age 27. He was young.  He was gone when I was young…I was 8 and half….

“Your dad asked me to give you this letter. He spent the whole week writing these, and he wants you read it. Be strong.” the nurse said, holding me.

“The envelope read WHEN I’M GONE.”

The rest of the letters

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Photos for Perfectionists

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More bizarre sculptures

Vintage Celebrities Posing with Their Cadillacs (2)

Vintage photos of classic stars and their classic Cadillac cars

road to the moon

More fantasy and just plain strange paintings by Sergey Svistunov

Subject: High schooler Lenore Reday stops traffic while wearing bell bottomed jump suit. Newport Beach, California October 1969 Photographer- Arthur Schatz Time Inc Owned Merlin- 1201942

High School 1969

Finally, The Subtile Art of Subtile Not Giving a Fuck. Valuable advice and funny as hell. But not for you if the word “fuck” offends.

If the word “fuck” doesn’t offend you, here’s a video with me saying it repeatedly: The Position of Fuck You

*Here are some more: As Seen On

Updates from our friends at:

Tuft & Needle:

If you’ve read my review, you know I love my T&N mattress and the company itself. Cool people, cool ethics.

Several times I’ve had personal friends call and ask: “What’s the real deal? It can’t be as good as you say for such short money.” It can and it is. Just last night one of these guys Skyped me to say how much they love theirs.

One of the cool things about getting your own T&N is watching it “come to life” once you release it from its packaging. Now you can see it before you buy in this cool video they just sent me (you need to scroll down once you open the link).

Truth is, I still think it’s cooler to see in real life. But that’s just me.

 Republic Wireless:

If you’ve read my review, you know I been using RW for the last few years and most recently with the Moto X phone. Overall I love it and I still marvel at how cheap it is.

The biggest obstacle for some folks has always been with RW you have to use one of just a couple of Motorola phones they offer. As I could care less what phone I carry, as long as it works and my Moto X works just fine, this has never been an issue for me.

If it has been for you, you might be interested in knowing RW just announced an expanded list of leading Android M enabled devices that will now work:

  •         Moto X Pure Edition
  •         Google Nexus 6P by Huawei
  •         Google Nexus 5X by LG
  •         Samsung Galaxy J3 (2016)
  •         Samsung Galaxy S6
  •         Samsung Galaxy S7
  •         Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge

You can buy these from RW or bring your own new or used version.

What I’ve been reading recently and recommend:

Trisha Ray is an old friend who very kindly created the original illustration that graces the cover of my book. Obviously, I love her work and her own book is filled with her wonderful water-colors. Each with a wonderfully well told story behind it. There are even pictures of and stories about me in it.

Shhhh. Don’t tell anybody.

Economics can be dry as dust. It can also provide deep insights into how our world really works. Mr Wheelin replaces the dry as dust aspect with a an engaging, even fun, read while delivering all those engaging insights. Especially worth reading at the moment with all the political campaign nonsense being spewed about.

We all know the Wright Brothers invented the airplane. But I, for one, had no idea how compelling a story theirs is. At least as told in this book by Mr. McCullough. Reads like a novel.

One in a series of novels and short stories recounting the adventures of Bertie Wooster and his “gentleman’s gentleman” Jeeves. If you’ve not read Wodehouse, do yourself a favor.

Aging boomers are urged to kill themselves to save the government money. A humorous cross between Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” and “House of Cards”

Interestingly, it references Bertie Wooster.

Southern missionary packs up his family and heads to the Congo. It doesn’t go well. Narrated in rotating chapters by his wife and four daughters. Compelling tale very well told. Amazing as the style and tone shifts between her narrators.

True story of a Mexican fisherman blown out into the Pacific Ocean and his survival as he drifts across for, well, 438 days. Reads like the great adventure it is. Amazing to note: All of his supplies are lost in the storm but he comes across enough garbage floating in the ocean to replenish them.

Predicting the future is risky business, but Ross makes an interesting case for how markets are changing and what industries are driving the change. Given the current political debate here in the US, I especially enjoyed his section: The Geography of Future Markets.

More books I’ve enjoyed

17 Apr 21:25

Saru – Singes du Japon – épisode 03 – Arashiyama 嵐山

by aAlex

Me revoilà pour vous raconter la troisième étape de mon périple d’automne pour le projet de livre et d’exposition photo Saru – Singes du Japon.

Après Nagano et le parc de Jigokudani, j’ai pris la direction d’Arashiyama, dans la région de Kyoto. Je suis parti de Nagano vers 23h en bus de nuit et arrivé à Kyoto dans la matinée. Je n’y suis pas resté très longtemps, mon but était de prendre en photo un comportement assez original. Je vous laisse le découvrir dans la vidéo…

Troisième destination
Arashiyama
[ automne ]

 

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Allaitement dans les arbres

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Femelle jouant avec des pierres.
Iwatayama a été le premier parc où ce comportement a été observé. On le retrouve dans d’autres parcs au Japon, mais pas à Jigokudani.

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À la semaine prochaine pour la suite du voyage !
:)