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If a client ever approached me without having some sort of direction or plan or strategy in mind, I would never work for them. I want clients who know what they want, who I can par…

My boss was involved in preparing the draft proposal that this bill is based on. He has over a decade of experience on both sides of the VC/start up fence. His experience bringing …

>The main problem is that Canada doesn't have near enough active VC investors. A trend that is certainly changing. Vancouver, for instance, has a growing and vibrant VC community, …

An update to my Creative Cloud confusion: http://patdryburgh.com/blog/no-serial-number-needed/

Again, feel free to bump up the text size if it doesn't work for you. The site is designed to adjust its layout based on the font size, so the line length will never change. One of…

Feel free to bump the text size up. The site's layout will adjust accordingly :) And, for the record, the background is white, and #333333 meets the criteria of both the W3C and th…

I received a great email from Andrew de Andrade, a fellow Hacker News reader, on why what I perceived to be censorship wasn't, and how it was my fault as the link submitter for not…

“I can see why the original headline might have been edited for clarity - the mental leap from "porno site" to "productivity porn" is non-obvious.” Perhaps it is non-obvious readin…

No, the site was a member of Fusion Ads starting in January 2011. Before that, a company that made hardware for managing desk clutter sponsored the blog.

Hey Arnold, Tried replying to you through email, but the email bounced back. Used the email on your Hacker News profile. Cheers, Pat

>It always makes me a bit sad when any site is taken offline. I haven't even heard of Simple Desks before, but it still makes me sad that it is gone. I'm very, very sympathetic to …

This was an option I considered and discussed with a friend who is well known in the minimalism/productivity space. To me, it's actually more of a moral issue: is keeping a site li…

Sorry, the title was censored.

Wasn't aware that producing work on the internet was limited to American citizens. McDonald's, here I come.