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November, 2005

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A special kind of hell

From a chat I had yesterday:
Friend: dude so this EASY ASS JOB
Friend: THIS GUY WANTED ME TO COME IN LIKE TOMORROW TO INTERVIEW
Friend: IT’S 40 K A YEAR FOR DOING FUCKING SECRETARIAL WORK
Friend: but i didn’t want to go in tomorrow cuz i need time to prep for thursday’s interview
Friend: so i said friday
Friend: and [...]

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Examples of barriers

Barriers, which I wrote about before, aren’t just my idea. Here are some nice examples of other bloggers writing about them from diverse areas:
From 37 signals:
Don’t waste time on trouble spots that don’t even exist yet
Sure, you need to prepare a bit ahead of time but you should never inflate a problem until it actually [...]

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What teens think about money

From a new Washington Post poll of local teens:
Sometimes their confidence borders on delusional: The vast majority say it’s likely they will be rich…
But as Lincoln said, “How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.”
Regardless, there [...]

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Debating minutiae and health

From the New York Times:
“I was crossing Third Avenue yesterday and I was coughing so hard I had to stop and barely made it across,” a patient told me last week. “I’m really scared I’m getting the avian flu.”
I just looked at him. What could I say? He has smoked two packs of cigarettes a [...]

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I’ll be speaking at Entrepreneur27 conference tomorrow

If you can make this event on the Stanford campus, come up and say hi.

I’ll be speaking about IWillTeachYouToBeRich and PBwiki, along with…
Blake Ross, creator of Firefox, internet BrowserDrew Lustro, creator of Makeshiftonline, fast growing online communityWendell III, creator of meetro, popular online chat programMike Li, creator of Six Sense, mobile social softwareTodd Masonis, creator [...]

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