Episode 217: The Worst Most Advanced Teenager

TOPIC: Take it personal and make it personal.

This week, Dan and Merlin talk about culture, solipsism, hiring, and needle-moving things.

Links for this episode:

• Ungainly X-Mann Meetup #8 — Merlin Mann
  
• Steve Albini: State of the Music Industry 2015 - yewknee
  
• ? A Few Good Men Introduction - YouTube
  
• John Gholson on Twitter: "Recolored KILLING JOKE looks like a totally different book. http://t.co/wcKz73nhHH"
  
• #19 Underdog — Reply All — Gimlet Media
  
• 5by5 | Hypercritical #12: Nothing Is So Perfect
  John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin turn a critical eye towards last week's episode on criticism, then try to pick the single biggest challenge facing three different wildly successful companies: Google, Facebook, and yes…Pixar.
• Hypercritical: OS X Reviewed
  Nearly 15 years ago, I wrote my first review of Mac OS X for a nascent “PC enthusiast’s" website called Ars Technica. Nearly 15 years later, I wrote my last. Though Apple will presumably announce the next major version of OS X at WWDC this coming June, I won’t be reviewing it for Ars Technica or any other publication, including the website you’re reading now.
• 5by5 Showbot
  
• Mr. Show - "The Five Voices" Sketch
  "He takes it personal and MAKES it personal."
• Here's What It Really Looks Like When Classic Comics Get Recolored
  Earlier today, Marvel unveiled its "remastered" edition of the 1977 comic adaptation of Star Wars. Many were unhappy to see the art of Howard Chaykin redone with a modern comic's color palette, including writer John Gholson, who took to Twitter to show how much a comic loses when it's recolored.
• Scrum Sprint Planning Meeting
  After the sprint review meeting, the team and the ScrumMaster get together for the retrospective meeting. During this meeting, the team considers what went well, what didn’t, and what improvements could be made in the next sprint. Team members should be able to speak frankly about the sprint’s successes and failures. It’s an especially important opportunity for the team to focus on its effectiveness and identify strategies to improve its processes. Moreover, it allows the ScrumMaster to observe common impediments that impact the team and then work to resolve them.
• After fifteen years, Ars says goodbye to John Siracusa’s OS X reviews | Ars Technica
  Standard WordPress cannot handle a Siracusa review.

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