Month: November 2008
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Retirement
I’m reading a magazine article on a plane right now about money discussions between couples. It says you should write down your goals and categorize your them like this: “work, children, retirement.” But what if I never plan on retiring? To me, retirement says “thank God I’m out of that hellhole.” It says, “finally I…
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Podcamp Ottawa all-around
I took all these photo at Podcamp yesterday and stitched them together with my girlfriend just now. Pretty cool. Thanks to Mark etc. for organizing. Take a look up close, I think it’s worth it.
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Google and your paycheck
I hosted a Facebook event last year where I remember the final panel being about the future of Facebook. This was right around when their new targeted ad service had come out (which eventually failed), but there was a lot of discussion about that, lots of marketers in the room chatting about what the strategy…
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About Twitter and attention
I’m starting to think that bloggers who heavily tweet are shortchanging themselves. I saw Michelle Blanc earlier and she mentioned that she’s going to be on Tout le monde en parle, a talk show here in Quebec. I hadn’t heard and told her so, so she said she had tweeted it, and jokingly asked if…
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About saving the world
Nobody gets credit for the crises they averted. If you saved your company because you decided to start doing the books clean, you’re not going to be the hero. You’re going to be the unrecognized, silent person chugging along and doing the right thing. It’s different than if your company sees disaster, almost ends up…
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Just ordered this
20×200 is doing good by me. It’s expensive to ship to Canada but the prints are very nice.