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Wow, is that all I have to do? And here I thought I should spend most of my time programming...
1. Unless you have one hell of a business cofounder.
Wow, is that all I have to do? And here I thought I should spend most of my time programming...
If you're a founder of a tech company and you spend most of your time programming, you're in for a rude awakening [1]. 1. Unless you have one hell of a business cofounder.
What if you're not an entrepreneur, but you'd like to be one some day, and you're overwhelmed with the sense that you're more intelligent than the majority of the population? Should you write then?
And, about the other thing: As long as you realize that even though you feel you're "more intelligent than the majority of the population" you, at the same time, realize that there a metric _boatload_ of people who are smarter, more successful, more insightful, and better at expressing themselves than you, you'll do great! Confidence + humility + honesty = a great path to success. There isn't one person that would dispute that.
What if you're not an entrepreneur, but you'd like to be one some day, and you're overwhelmed with the sense that you're more intelligent than the majority of the population? Should you write then?
This is all good advice except that (as you can see in these comments) I spell like a retarded gold fish and my ideas aren't really that interesting. I very much doubt I am alone in this.
First, not every blog post is going to be your greatest piece of work ever. Second, if you don't have a single interesting idea, why are you starting a business? Hopefully your business or product is an interesting idea. Write about that!
This is all good advice except that (as you can see in these comments) I spell like a retarded gold fish and my ideas aren't really that interesting. I very much doubt I am alone in this.
That's what you think now. Look at how much mileage Gladwell gets out of his core ideas, which wouldn't have a leg to stand on without all that embroidery.
For my product I look for a story to tell in every bug-fix and feature I work on. If nothing else, I want to see if it doesn't add credibility when readers are at least informed how much work goes into a quality product day-to-day.
A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
Conciseness is a universal design principle, and writing is one way of practicing it.
What if you're not an entrepreneur, but you'd like to be one some day, and you're overwhelmed with the sense that you're more intelligent than the majority of the population? Should you write then?
http://brandsplusmusic.blogspot.com/2010/04/creativity-and-1...
This is all good advice except that (as you can see in these comments) I spell like a retarded gold fish and my ideas aren't really that interesting. I very much doubt I am alone in this.