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Daniel Tunkelang: Where Do You Want To Get To?

In Lewis Carroll's classic novel Alice in Wonderland, there's a memorable exchange between Alice and the Cheshire Cat about making decisions."Would you tell me... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | July 31, 1301 at 07:03 PM

From The Noisy Channel

Daniel Tunkelang: A Different Approach to Anonymous Sharing

There’s been a lot of buzz in Silcon Valley around anonymous sharing apps. Particularly Secret, which identifies authors only by their social distance to the reader... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | July 31, 1301 at 07:03 PM

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Daniel Tunkelang: The Facebook Colonoscopy Experiment

By now, you’re probably sick of hearing about the Facebook data science experiment on emotion manipulation. Depending on whom you ask, it’s either a serious breach... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | June 30, 1301 at 07:03 PM

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Daniel Tunkelang: No, You Don’t Have a Right to be Forgotten

A couple of months ago, the European Court of Justice stunned the world with a ruling on the “right to be forgotten” that ordered Google to remove a link to a 1998... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | June 30, 1301 at 07:03 PM

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Daniel Tunkelang: Information Asymmetry in the Workplace

Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha, and Chris Yeh recently published a book entitled The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age. Their premise is that we need a... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | June 30, 1301 at 07:03 PM

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Daniel Tunkelang: Web Science: How is it different?

This morning, I had the honor and pleasure to deliver a keynote address at the ACM Web Science 2014 Conference. I entitled it "Web Science: How is it different... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | May 31, 1301 at 07:03 PM

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Daniel Tunkelang: A Leap of Faith

My CEO Jeff Weiner likes to say that trust equals consistency over time. It’s a principle that applies as much to relationships with people as it does to machine... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | May 31, 1301 at 07:03 PM

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Daniel Tunkelang: Bringing Empathy into the Workplace

Recently I’ve participated in several intense conversations with workplace colleagues. It wouldn't be appropriate for me to discuss the content. But I want to share... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | May 31, 1301 at 07:03 PM

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Daniel Tunkelang: Search at LinkedIn: Brooklyn Edition

On Thursday, Asif Makhani and I had the pleasure of sharing the story of LinkedIn search with two audiences in my former hometown of Brooklyn. In fact, both talks... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | May 31, 1301 at 07:03 PM

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Daniel Tunkelang: Transformation of Self

One of LinkedIn's core cultural values is transformation of self. For many people, that means pursuing your dream job. For others, it means being able to learnBell's... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | May 31, 1301 at 07:03 PM

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Daniel Tunkelang: Interviewing Engineers is an Engineering Problem

There's a lot of advice out there about how to interview software engineers, much of it good. But what's been missing is a framing of interviewing engineers asmultiple... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | May 31, 1301 at 07:03 PM

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Daniel Tunkelang: Should Interviewers Require Take-Home Coding Assignments?

Earlier this week, my colleague Jakob Heuser published a post entitled "I'm Sorry, I Won't Do Your Take Home Coding Exercise". Here's a summary of his argumenthow... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | May 31, 1301 at 07:03 PM

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Daniel Tunkelang: Interviewing Engineers is a Team Sport

Let me start with a shout-out to Yishan Wong, who wrote the definitive essay on hiring engineers. Here’s how it begins: Hiring is number one. This means "make hiring... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | May 31, 1301 at 07:03 PM

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Daniel Tunkelang: Whose Data Is It Anyway?

Last week Paul Adams, who was part of the original Google+ team and then spent a couple of years at Facebook, published a great post on product lessons we can learn... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | May 31, 1301 at 07:03 PM

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Daniel Tunkelang: When to Disagree and Not Commit

Companies such as Intel and Amazon have popularized an approach to group decision making known as "disagree and commit". During the decision-making process, everyone's... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | May 31, 1301 at 07:03 PM

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Daniel Tunkelang: Is Engineering-Driven Culture Sexist?

Some topics are hot enough that most people in the tech industry simply avoid them. One is the sexism that prevails in tech company cultures. Another is the way... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | May 31, 1301 at 07:03 PM

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Daniel Tunkelang: Search as Communication

Last year, I gave a talk at Etsy on "Search as Communication" as part of their Code as Craft speaker series. I'm pleased to see that the video is now posted on... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | May 31, 1301 at 07:03 PM

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Daniel Tunkelang: Your Trade-Offs Define You

In her essay "On Self-Respect", Joan Didion tells us that "people with self-respect have the courage of their mistakes. They know the price of things." I read that... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | May 31, 1301 at 07:03 PM

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Daniel Tunkelang: Search Quality at LinkedIn

Yesterday evening, I had the pleasure to see my colleagues Abhimanyu Lad and Satya Kanduri talk to the Bay Area Search Meetup about "Search Quality at LinkedIn"... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | May 31, 1301 at 07:03 PM

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Daniel Tunkelang: Socializing Search. Professionally.

Attending the annual O'Reilly Strata Conference on big data has become an annual tradition. This year, my colleague Sriram Sankar and I talked about LinkedIn Search... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | May 31, 1301 at 07:03 PM