July 3, 2008
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I found this week-old fortune while organizing a pile of index cards on my desk. Serendipitous because I had just read Havi Brooks’ post about dealing with random help requests which helped me clarify my own help policy.
Oh, and for the record, I don’t keep all fortune cookies, only a crazy person with an index [...]
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June 11, 2008
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1. Keep it real.
2. Stay at it.
It’s the most cliché advice ever, but it works. All the technical stuff that the SEO gurus want to sell you doesn’t matter.
Some of the most popular bloggers have ugly websites, bad typography, shocking SEO failures, and they often live in the TypePad domain ghetto.* No matter, the traffic [...]
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May 30, 2008
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Venture capitalist Fred Wilson said something great in a post about how he became a VC:
“Then I got lucky. The Internet came along.”
What would I have done after college if computers and the internet didn’t exist? What would you be doing right now without technology?
I’d like us all to say a silent prayer of thanks [...]
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May 12, 2008
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Microsoft’s mission was to “put a computer on every office desk and in every home.”
Today Microsoft faces that most terrifying question, “Now what?”
Bill Gates is leaving to avoid that question, and an organization full of people in “guard my fiefdom” mode can’t answer it.
I wonder if a different mission like “Build the most desirable software [...]
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May 5, 2008
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…is Copyblogger’s The Snowboard, the Subdural Hematoma, and the Secret of Life:
It’s all too easy to tell ourselves we can’t really do what we want. That it’s not practical, or it’s too hard, or that our dreams are selfish and not the “right thing” to do.
I got over that really fast. Every delusional and self-defeating [...]
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April 29, 2008
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Do you compulsively select blocks of text, click non-linked text just to click, or randomly wiggle the mouse? You may have Restless Mouse Syndrome (RMS).
Lots of people have RMS, but it manifests in different ways. For example, my RMS compulsion is to select about 3 lines of text from the middle of the first line [...]
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April 22, 2008
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I must have a t-shirt that looks like this:
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April 14, 2008
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Don’t want to jinx it, but I’m finally getting over the most annoying flu ever. I’d feel horrible for a few days, then I’d feel good enough to work for a few days, then I’d feel horrible again with totally different symptoms. At no point did I overexert myself or miss rest, symptoms just came [...]
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March 30, 2008
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Superman I & II
Alien
The Z Channel
Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back
The Twilight Zone. I’m told that I used to watch this at all hours before I could even talk. Great.
Old school Warner Bros. cartoons, especially those featuring Wagner, Bugs conducting the symphony, Duck Twacy, Bugs in the Coliseum, or that creepy red monster [...]
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February 26, 2008
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In Your Secret Army of Experts I talk about the great reservoir of talent that your friends have that often goes untapped. What better way to tap that reservoir than by interviewing my accomplished friends so everyone can benefit from their experience?
Anyway, Doug and Micah, you’re up first. :)
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