links for 2008-05-23

• The Employee Factor: Keep Highly Engaged Employees Only – Offer Quitting Bonus!
  “According to a recent Harvard Business Review article, Zappos offers employees a quitting bonus. Yes, we did say a bonus to quit. “
  (tags: corporate-culture culture engagement employee management)
• A List Apart: Articles: Sign Up Forms Must Die
  “I believe we can get people engaged with digital services in a way that tells them how such services work and why they should care enough to use them. I also believe we can do this without explicitly making them fill out a sign-up form as a first step.”
  (tags: applications usability webdesign interface)
• Bruce Lee – Top 7 Fundementals for Getting Your Life In Shape
  “If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.”
  (tags: productivity psychology bruce-lee quotes via:carroll)
• mental_floss Blog » He Took a Polaroid Every Day, Until the Day He Died
  “Yesterday I came across a slightly mysterious website — a collection of Polaroids, one per day, from March 31, 1979 through October 25, 1997. ” This post is so awesome. Beyond words – and offers a lot of perspective.
  (tags: article commitment photography art polaroid death)
• A Chance for Pownce to Pounce? | Mark Evans
  “The amazing thing about Twitter is that despite its ongoing and frustrating technical problems, people keep on using it. You know you’re red-hot when most of your users continue to love what you do even when you screw them around.”
  (tags: twitter scalability)
• Twitterer Takes on Twitter Harassment Policy | Epicenter from Wired.com
  “Ariel Waldman says she’s been harassed over Twitter for close to a year and the company has refused to do anything about it, despite the fact that it violates their own terms of service.”
  (tags: twitter harassment news)

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