Has anyone done a side-by-side comparison to GifRocket? I've got no reason to abandon GifRocket as it's always been pretty reliable and straight-forward to use, but am wondering if there's codec/performance benefits to using Gifski?

So edgy.

"ETA: 3 hours."

That's beautifully done.

That sounds bordering on flippant. How will it do this? I think what Aaron is alluding to is, there's very little in the way of feature description or other incentives to make me sign up.

Couple of questions: Are you explicitly personalising content based on my "selective interests"? e.g. am I selecting from a massive lists of categories what I'm going to see? How is this better than going to specialised feeds directly? How do you solve for discovery? Is the platform intelligent enough to continue building a profile of my preferences as I express interest in other content/makers that I follow? Is this collaborative and a two-way dialogue or does the value lie in a curated feed? What about the actual social side of things? How do you handle community management? Is this open-facing like Twitter and facilitating discovery through related content and makers? Or is this Facebook where things are shielded and I can have private discussions and share work that I need specific feedback on from within a select group of peers? Or is this Pinterest/Dribbble where the onus lies on visual exploration and curation?

Would love to know more.

• Push the Espresso button on coffee machine. Twice.
• Read and prioritise email on phone whilst waiting.
• Sit on balcony, drink coffee and have a cigarette, get short emails out of the way.
• Move to office, get cracking.

If it's a holiday, I bathe.

Ran into the same issue. Makes data on the follow-up question irrelevant.

More so than with other jobs, this one really depends on the environment she wishes to work in. From my experience, particularly agency side, tangible experience and results far outweigh any PMP/CSM/PRINCE2 certification.

Some of the best project managers and directors I know have been able to grow from fresh grad junior PMs to full blown department heads in their respective offices. Agency life tends to push people like this forward when opportunity arrises.

Having said that, client and corporation side, things tend to be a little more traditional. Typical career paths tend to be pretty locked down in existing processes with internal training and career development certifications and trainings. In certain cases you can leapfrog these with the right educational/certification background - see above. Which flavour of the day will net the most advantage is very much dependant on internal processes and preferences, and thus dependant on the company.

Understand this is probably already something you and your wife have theorised, but hope my personal experience will help confirm.

Source: 14+ yrs working from boutique agencies to one of the Big Four consultancies and pretty much everything in between. Also, married to an incredibly talented Group Program Director, previously Operations Director at one of the worlds largest advertising agencies.

I tend to agree with most of what has already been said on the topic, but having worked across NA, EMEA and in APAC is that culture is a great influencer as well.

I remember my stack of business cards collecting dust when I worked in EMEA, whilst I can't get reprints quick enough in Asia. There's ritual involved to that end with doing business in Asia where the exchange of business cards is something you have to get used to if you're not familiar with the ordeal (a quick Google will net you various commandments).

Whilst the business card in and of itself is a sign of respect, the title printed allows for a great deal to be communicated before a meeting has even started. A bad title can create confusion, or worse, apprehension, making the recipient wonder if they're wasting their time. A good one cuts to the chase and saves time and establishes trust.

Anecdotally, it tends to remove the need of having to sell yourself based on past experience. Which, coincidentally, I've never found a particularly good way of selling regardless, but that's a different story. Instead, it allows you to focus (in the case of a new business meeting for example) on your ideas and work that are for whomever you're meeting.

Lastly, on the topic of what could be considered as the allure (and pretence) of the slightly more pompous titles, it seems to be one of these "assets" that once you've got one, you cross it off your bucket list and will forget about it. But I'm wary that with my current official title, which includes more acronyms and random letters than a bad round of Countdown, that may sound like a dirty humble brag.

Am I missing a "Continue Reading" call to action or something, or is this seriously a whole micro-page dedicated to two questions? ...