Morrie the Toupee Salesman

One of the real shocks for me living in California was how many stupid people are there. I knew that there would be lots of smart people, and there were, to the point of intimidation. In general the smart people tend to be at the bottom of organizations, and the higher up you go the [...]

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Hacker News might be banning valleywag. Michael Arrington crows. Valleywag is basically a techcrunch competitor. They report on the same companies, the same people. The difference is the editorial slant. Instead of the hushed reverence of the business press, they have a tabloid mentality. So basically they’re being banned not for their content, or for [...]

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One of the things that struck me about living in the US was how much things slow down between Thanksgiving and Christmas. I was not cognizant of that behavior previously, believing in the the American Worker Bee legend. Just FYI, Canada has a similar, unofficial period of slackerdom from early April to some indeterminate date [...]

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After endlessly advocating that you get your life into blogs, twitter, flickr, digg, whatever, Robert Scoble decides it’s not for him. Because he’s got to deal with his email! Hugh Macleod discovers that living in the valley can kill your productivity. And this guy just thinks it’s all shit. Makes me glad to have exited [...]

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Link. This prompted me to unfollow him on twitter. Not that I needed much prompting. I’ve just made up a new word – “frammer” – someone who uses friend mechanisms on various sites to incessantly spam you with 100% PR. Maybe my readers can help popularize it. Get to it! I’ve been unfollowing and unfriending [...]

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