You gave him something, you got something,They were the ones who spent six hours a day in the library, reading their textbooks See, Gourmet magazine or the frontlist at a midlist publisher were mostly wrapper,Uninformed is not a pejorative term, it's a temporary state
Honing your music or your presentation or your business plan or your store's inventory are all efforts to resonate,They did it to Valentine's day and now, of course, Halloween In most families, even the holidays are more about present exchange than the selfless act of actually giving a gift,We don't like rancid cheese and we assume others don't either
Sorry, wake me up in the morning, not in the middle of the night,The French word ��clich���� comes from the sound made when the matrix is dropped into molten metal to make a printing plate Clay Shirky has noticed the trend of talented people putting five or six hours an evening to work instead of to waste,In the old days, gifts like these would cost money to create and be hard to share
Today, as you've no doubt discovered, is April Fools, the official holiday of the web,the cat never learns and you get frustrated If you had known then what you know now, what would you have done differently? Of course, you did know it then,If you don't have goals like this, how exactly are you going to luck into being remarkable?
What did Adobe pay for? I'd argue it was direct access to the right people at the leading advertisers and websites around the world,His lack of scale makes it easy for him to share The only losers will be those that are stuck on the old model of taking advantage of independent communities with no purchasing power,You can animate, but only if you have a note from your doctor
to insulate the people who make decisions from the actual customers,My post on wikipedia really hit a nerve with a large number of readers Every issue is loaded with great deals on the latest technology -from systems and servers to TVs and printers,Joel Spolsky rarely writes about his product, but that's fine
If you bring your bike in for a tune up, it will cost $39 and take a week,Not a note book, a tool for writing down facts Before him, it was just a crazy dancing guy and then maybe one other crazy guy,By putting something up for all to see, you start conversations or remind people of the mission
It's true, write what you know, write what you love,Crunching some numbers, it realizes that the Whitestone is totally jammed and can send people over the Throgs instead They don't trust you to understand their industry, or to understand implementation,Those things won��t get cut, yet most of them aren��t needs at all
A friend is someone who has interacted with you, or who knows your parents or reads your blog��someone with history,You have tickets to the Springsteen concert Frank Eliason gave up Tweeting for a day to share his thoughts with us as well,The chances that your effort will be rewarded with income in proportion to the time you put in are pretty low
You can make a good living selling bespoke PC laptops or doing vaudeville today, even though the mass of the market couldn't care a bit,Sell to angry cheapskates and your business will reflect that Technologists hate this choice, but it's true,There's too much friction in stuck industries
Google was a very good search engine for two years before you started using it,Think of all the money you'll save if you just stop answering altogether I don't even know what it is, I never see it,New photo sharing sites assume you��ve seen Flickr
That means that digital commerce enables niches,So the signage says nothing about what they don't put in their ice cream THE ROAD TRIP: In two weeks I'll be in DC for the second in a series of all-day interactive events,One true fan is worth perhaps 10,000 times as much as a stranger
