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Haha, I'm gratified to be described as a 'young person' in the Granttree section... TERRIBLE photo of Swombat, though. :D
Although swombat's account lists his real name, I would never have made the connection. Putting a face on some of the more notorious (in a good way! ;-p) accounts on this site would be .. interesting.
Haha, I'm gratified to be described as a 'young person' in the Granttree section... TERRIBLE photo of Swombat, though. :D
Any of the host companies willing to share details of the projects that were worked on? Quite curious! Edit: Also wondering about the general experience of getting good work done with someone new to the team/project in just a couple days.
We had Jacques, "The Jim Rogers of Tech," (http://www.amazon.com/Adventure-Capitalist-Ultimate-Road-Tri...) for a highly enjoyable two days.
We found him to be intense (on the first day we talked constantly till 9:00 p.m.), wise (he has worked on loads of fascinating projects), trustworthy (he works with many companies at a very high level) and fascinated about everything (he spent five minutes trying to work out how our staircase was made).
We showed Jacques a list of all our challenges and problems, and then for two days we worked through it, asking him for his ideas, resources he knows, etc.. We came away with several pages of useful notes. Since then, he has contacted us several times with further insights he has had.
If you ever get a chance to work with him, I'd highly recommend it.
Edit: Whoa, brain is spinning, ideas are mixing. James Altucher (Choose Yourself, author) gives away ideas to network, create value, and ultimately generates business as a result. Something is coming alive in my head. Cool.
I have to admit I'm a little sad this article wasn't referring to the adventure game series The Journeyman Project: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Journeyman_Project