Firstly, underwear rotation. Here’s a topic near and dear to our hearts. When Mrs. Taco found us rotating our t-shirts (of which we have many), she laughed. Lo, how lonely we felt! As if we were the lone taquito left in a 3-rolled-with-guac combo from ‘Bertos. Because we not only rotate our shirts, but the underwear, and, in their own way, the socks as well. We’re not fanatics about it, but it helps keep everything worn at least somewhat evenly. So it was with great joy in our hearts that we read about ChangeLog’s wife rotating his underwear. We’re not alone!

Newsweek recently published Google’s 10 ten rules for employing IT workers. We can find no fault in these.

1. Hire by committee
2. Cater to every need
3. Pack them in. Almost every project at Google is a team project, and teams have to communicate. The best way to make communication easy is to put team members within a few feet of each other
4. Make coordination easy
5. Eat your own dog food
6. Encourage creativity
7. Strive to reach consensus
8. Don’t be evil
9. Data drive decisions
10. Communicate effectively.

Almost every good working environment I have had–where people are genuinely happy and look forward to coming to work–has focussed on most of these in some way or another. But some days, we would be happy enough with just some good communication.