Timing Lessons
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Timing Lessons
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#2I'm having a hard time understanding why he thinks Xanga wasn't a success. He worked on Blogger as well, both of those sites are huge still, maybe not Twitter huge but they are big.
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#3> Surrounding yourself with smart people you like to work with helps immeasurably.
I think this is one of the most important pieces of advice ever. Not many people are solo savants - almost everyone who is successful (in business, academia, life) is surrounded by other competent, like-minded people. We're all standing on the shoulders of giants here, and the romantic meme of the lone-wolf superstar maverick needs to be put away.
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#4I'm having a hard time understanding why he thinks Xanga wasn't a success. He worked on Blogger as well, both of those sites are huge still, maybe not Twitter huge but they are big.
does he say it wasn't a success?
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#5> Surrounding yourself with smart people you like to work with helps immeasurably. I think this is one of the most important pieces of advice ever. Not many people are solo savants - almost everyone who is successful (in business, academia, life) is surrounded by other competent, like-minded people. We're all standing on the shoulders of giants here, and the romantic meme of the lone-wolf superstar maverick needs to…
it makes setbacks tolerable, and day to day toiling a pleasure.
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#6I'm having a hard time understanding why he thinks Xanga wasn't a success. He worked on Blogger as well, both of those sites are huge still, maybe not Twitter huge but they are big.
does he say it wasn't a success?
That's true he doesn't say they weren't successes explicitly. He does say that it took 10 years to make you look like a succes in the last paragraph which I understood as the other sites not being successes to him.
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#7I'm having a hard time understanding why he thinks Xanga wasn't a success. He worked on Blogger as well, both of those sites are huge still, maybe not Twitter huge but they are big.
Though blogger was a big hit he wasn't the founder/co-founder of it. Evan Williams was credited with 100% success of blogger. I am not sure about his association with xanga though. But with Twitter he gets an equal footing. That's what I think he is referring to in this article.
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#8while I can't say I personally admire twitter as a business, I have some serious respect for his message: 10 years of hard work make an overnight success.
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#9It's called luck
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
does he say it wasn't a success?
That's true he doesn't say they weren't successes explicitly. He does say that it took 10 years to make you look like a succes in the last paragraph which I understood as the other sites not being successes to him.
well, with all due respect, you're not king of the world if you're the founder or co-founder of Xanga :)