How To Get My Job

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Post by teaquaffer » Sat, Nov 15, 2008, 5:18 PM UTC

Re: How To Get My Job

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Post by tptacek » Sat, Nov 15, 2008, 9:43 PM UTC

Fortunately, since 1996, the task of getting Jerry Pournelle's job has gotten much, much easer: start a blog, write on a schedule, promote your content, and become popular. Then pitch the blog (and it's topic) to the publishing venture of your choice.

Re: How To Get My Job

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Post by zandorg » Sat, Nov 15, 2008, 11:11 PM UTC

Jerry helped end the Cold War. http://www.nss.org/adastra/volume13/butrica.html

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Post by showerst » Sun, Nov 16, 2008, 12:24 AM UTC

Anyone else notice how this kind of overlaps with the recent Malcolm Gladwell book's thesis?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/nov/15/malcolm-gladwell...

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Post by randallsquared » Sun, Nov 16, 2008, 3:15 PM UTC

Pournelle is the guy who said, in the 80s, "By 2000, anybody will be able to get the answer to any question (for which there's a known answer)." (Possibly a paraphrase; I stopped looking when I found a quote).