If you are busy calculating quid pro quo, that means your heart isn't in it, and the math won't work out anyway,Easy to sign up, easy to get paid, no real hoops or hassles Email this ? Subscribe to this feed ? Share on Facebook,When confronted with a scared CEO, time to run
Email this Subscribe to this feed Share on Facebook,If you cared about privacy you wouldn't have a credit card, because, after all, they know everything you spend money on Share the buying with six friends and it costs far less than coffee,It turns out you can get a lot done if you just take more responsibility instead
Or you can skip that and wait to get picked,I'm going to adjust as I go and hope to make the supply more reliable But it also doesn't pay to brainwash yourself into believing that super-extreme is the same as profitable,Twelve bestsellers later, I've thought hard about what it means to have a traditional publisher
Matt has a masterful post up about what it means to ship,I'm investigating new ways to make this more efficient going forward You get hooked on them or they demand more attention or they make too much noise and the less-shiny projects or people whither away,As the medium changes, publishers are on the defensive
We live in a society in which the medicinal and social use of substances (drugs) is pervasive: an aspirin to quiet a headache, some wine to be sociable, coffee to get going in the morning, a cigarette for the nerves.Dependence is marked first by an increased tolerance, with more and more of the substance required to produce the desired effect, and then by the appearance of unpleasant withdrawal symptoms when the substance is discontinued.
If you're hiding from the market, it's difficult to do great work,Not enough dimensions for me to be fascinated by, and few people pay money to attend bowling matches And then, of course, a vacuum, because the important but less glamorous work didn't get done,One CEO worked as hard as she could to restrain herself, but failed and almost threw me out of her office by the end
There's nothing wrong with leverage, no problem at all with an unexpected lift that changes everything,I can't promise that these will last much longer than the last batch, but I've already ordered some more Sometimes, the best strategy isn't to to head farther and farther out on the tail,Adrian Zackheim, who runs the imprint, is exactly what you'd hope for, even if the architecture of his industry is fundamentally broken
