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The 24 year old that designed the Windows 7 screen

Posted Friday, November 06, 2009 9:25 AM by HeatherLeigh
This will make you feel old and stale if anything will. Because Chuck Anderson is amazingly talented. And 24. Yeah, 24. When he was born, I was staying out too late, smoking cigarettes and going to keg parties hoping that the police didn't show up. But Read More...
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Enough with the stickers already!

Posted Wednesday, October 28, 2009 4:33 PM by HeatherLeigh
Once upon a time, Microsoft employees got t-shirts. Many, many t-shirts. It got old, as things are wont to do. Seems that Moore's law applies to tech company swag as well. Because in much less time, I've gotten sick of stickers. Arghthestickerspleasemakeitstop. Read More...
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Windows 7 Shazam!

Posted Friday, October 16, 2009 12:18 PM by HeatherLeigh
"Wow" doesn't cut it for me. "Wow" is what I say if a lady yells at her kids in public. Or if I see one more person wear brown Uggs with black leggings (so many kinds of wrong). Or 10% off of whatever. Yeah, wow. So when it comes to the Windows 7 awesomeness, Read More...
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Less panic, more spa days

Posted Monday, October 12, 2009 1:45 PM by HeatherLeigh
Most of us have probably been in the situation where we have to pull off something big; some big amorphous blob of bigness and strategery. No playbook and no rule book. Just get it done, kid. And make it awesome. My funky little job sits in that space. Read More...
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5K

Posted Friday, October 09, 2009 1:38 PM by HeatherLeigh
OK, running officianados...I'm doing a 5K in about an hour. It's being held on campus for our giving campaign. I generally like the anonymity of running in a big crowd, but running at work? Not quite enough anonymity for me. I bump into people all the Read More...
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Sometimes, when something looks like a fizzy scoop, it totally isn't.

Posted Friday, September 18, 2009 2:23 PM by HeatherLeigh
I'm still restricting my viewing of news. More often than not, I want the time back. Weather report, please, but hold those personal interest stories; which stations/networks seem to have increased to water down the newsy proof that we are all going to Read More...
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Visualization

Posted Monday, August 31, 2009 3:03 PM by HeatherLeigh
I have been thinking about how I use visualization in my life. I wish I could master it at work as well as I have elsewhere, but I am still working on that. There's really no physical finish line to cross or trophy to win at work. So the visualization Read More...
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He who has the largest external talent pool to fish from wins

Posted Thursday, August 20, 2009 5:18 PM by HeatherLeigh
Or perhaps better put, "what's my motivation again for not recruiting your employees?" From what I understand about Steve Jobs, it's all about him. All. About. Him. From the mouths of his employees, I heard this. But wouldn't one, when asking to negotiate, Read More...
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We are totally a search engine company.

Posted Monday, August 10, 2009 3:10 PM by HeatherLeigh
I can't imagine what this feels like for a developer at Yahoo! I always felt that the perception of Yahoo! as more of a media company always like an assessment of how well they did in the content space, relative to the search space. I mean, when you saw Read More...
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To be verbed or not to be verbed.

Posted Monday, July 20, 2009 9:42 AM by HeatherLeigh
Walking the precarious line of brandiness ; companies want to be verbed, but not so much that their verb becomes generic and applicable to their competitors as well. I might argue that the genericide of google has commenced. I recently heard someone refer Read More...
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You can't make this stuff up. You just can't.

Posted Thursday, July 16, 2009 11:20 AM by HeatherLeigh
From Kevin Turner's speech, referencing our "Laptop Hunter" ads, at our Worldwide Partner Conference: And so we've been running these PC value ads. Just giving people saying, hey, what are you looking to spend? "Oh, I'm looking to spend less than $1,000." Read More...
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Bill Gates' brain equals forty-three non-Gates brains

Posted Wednesday, July 15, 2009 4:35 PM by HeatherLeigh
Interesting how Think Week has changed since Bill's role has decreased at good ole MS. I'll be back with more posts once smoke stops coming out of my ears...speaking of brains. Read More...
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Counter intuitively, working from home is for the extroverts

Posted Wednesday, July 01, 2009 10:55 AM by HeatherLeigh
While I am not particularly surprised by this report, showing that the most effective home-workers are the extroverts , I do feel kind of validated by it. Or at least, I can stop asking myself "what is wrong with me that I *need* to go into the office?" Read More...
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Classic weenie

Posted Thursday, June 04, 2009 9:31 PM by HeatherLeigh
Occasionally, I am reminded of this memo . One of the best memos I have read. And coincidentally (synchronistically, perhaps), I had a guest speaker throw me a t-shirt in a presentation today and I left it there. Not only because I am not an XL (I could Read More...
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The myth of "having it all"

Posted Wednesday, June 03, 2009 8:22 AM by HeatherLeigh
I really hate that phrase. When have you heard an in-depth conversation about men "having it all". And so to the person that coined that phrase: either you said it in the fifties or you are kind of a jerk. Because that little phrase has made countless Read More...
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