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The Way I Work: TechCrunch's Michael Arrington

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Re: The Way I Work: TechCrunch's Michael Arrington

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Post by iampims »

The early days of TC were what Arrington did best. His writing was engaging and the his takes on startups interesting. But the urge of getting big had a significant — and I think negative — effect on the quality of the news. Countless stories of Twitter being down or Apple's Appstore rejections have damaged the TC brand.

Who's the next "TC of the early days"?

Re: The Way I Work: TechCrunch's Michael Arrington

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Post by melissamiranda »

bostonvaulter2 wrote: post #32
btmorex wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For some reason on page 2 some javascript kept scrolling the page all the way down like every 20 seconds... so annoying. I ended up copying the text to a text editor.

You should really try readability: http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/ It make reading articles on the web much nicer.

Or Instapaper. I can't read on most news sites anymore for all the crap they put on there.

Re: The Way I Work: TechCrunch's Michael Arrington

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Post by aw3c2 »

bostonvaulter2 wrote: post #32
btmorex wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For some reason on page 2 some javascript kept scrolling the page all the way down like every 20 seconds... so annoying. I ended up copying the text to a text editor.

You should really try readability: http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/ It make reading articles on the web much nicer.

Or Opera's builtin accessibility layout.

Re: The Way I Work: TechCrunch's Michael Arrington

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Post by eavc »

mattmaroon wrote: post #44

I'd love to know what doctor told him it's better to sleep 4 or 5 hours and wake up on an alarm than to sleep 8 or 9 hours and wake up whenever. Sounds like something out of a Rodney Dangerfield joke.

I've seen a study that people who sleep 8/9 hours a night typically don't live as long. Of course, correlation vs causation and all that.

Re: The Way I Work: TechCrunch's Michael Arrington

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Post by dabent »

danilocampos wrote: post #35

And with this my opinion of Arrington shifts from "hey, he's kind of a self-important dick" to "huh, this guy is an introvert who's confident and passionate about his work, kind of like me." Guy's all right. And my hat's off to him for building something truly powerful from scratch.

And I'm surprised at his drive "I’d work until I passed out, and wake up eight or nine hours later, which might be 4 p.m. or 3 a.m. Then I’d work again until I passed out." I don't think I've known many people to push it quite that hard.

Re: The Way I Work: TechCrunch's Michael Arrington

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Post by fredoliveira »

learner4life wrote: post #48

"But then at some point in the past year, I suddenly lost my short-term memory." Has anyone else here run into this experience?

Actually, yes. Not completely (as in, not forever), and it's not very serious (I get the feeling of a failing short term memory in times when I'm more stressed out) but it's definitely cause for concern. I guess it is the combination of sleep deprivation and way too much stress.
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