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# Stuff

##### 11/9/2014

- [Against Productivity](https://medium.com/message/against-productivity-b19f56b67da6)
  \- *"We should spend more time wasting time. We all need to be bored more.
  We all need to spend more time looking quizzically at birds we don’t
  recognize. We all need a little more time to connect the dots and see if
  they matter. I don’t know how much more, but sometimes you have to do
  things without knowing how much you need."*

##### 11/4/2014

- [The Other Side of Diversity](https://medium.com/@ericajoy/the-other-side-of-diversity-1bb3de2f053e)
  \- A powerful personal account of the challenges and negative effects of
  diversity on those who are providing the diversity.

- [Understanding JavaScript Inheritance](https://alexsexton.com/blog/2013/04/understanding-javascript-inheritance/)
  \- Where analogies fail to convey a concept, try to just let someone know
  why the concept in question is useful or give a practical scenario in
  which that concept is applicable.

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layout: default
title: Stuff by Josh Branchaud
---

# Stuff

##### 11/9/2014

- [Against Productivity](https://medium.com/message/against-productivity-b19f56b67da6)
  \- *"We should spend more time wasting time. We all need to be bored more.
  We all need to spend more time looking quizzically at birds we don’t
  recognize. We all need a little more time to connect the dots and see if
  they matter. I don’t know how much more, but sometimes you have to do
  things without knowing how much you need."*

- [How We Made Our Landing Pages Fast: A Grand Journey](http://blog.trello.com/how-we-made-our-new-landing-pages-fast-a-grand-journey/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=post_111014&utm_campaign=landingpages)
  \- A postmortem on how Trello sped up their static pages by separating
  them from the rest of the single page application logic. Those pages will
  load faster when you cut all the unneeded CSS and JavaScript.

##### 11/4/2014

- [The Other Side of Diversity](https://medium.com/@ericajoy/the-other-side-of-diversity-1bb3de2f053e)
  \- A powerful personal account of the challenges and negative effects of
  diversity on those who are providing the diversity.

- [Understanding JavaScript Inheritance](https://alexsexton.com/blog/2013/04/understanding-javascript-inheritance/)
  \- Where analogies fail to convey a concept, try to just let someone know
  why the concept in question is useful or give a practical scenario in
  which that concept is applicable.

Add a link about Trello speeding up landing pages.
Add a link about Trello speeding up landing pages.
