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Comment by akikuchi | Hacker News Reader

I actually enjoy many of the posts about the creative (or at least somewhat non-traditional) things people do as solo entrepreneurs. After reading the entire article though, I do find it funny how this tagline was used to position the article for the HN community. The article is actually much more of a character study than a discussion of a business, and it takes a significant change in content after the first thousand words.

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Brilliant article, brilliant HN positioning, brilliant page partitioning. Best thing I've read on HN this year.

The way the article totally changes course on the last page is brilliant. This might be the only news article I've seen that used the hypertext format that well.

There was a live chat with the author on the Washington Post the week this was published. Someone asked him if the paging was set up this way on purpose and he denied it.

I always click 'print this article', then click my Readability bookmarklet ( http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/ ). Works 9/10 times and gives a nice speed boost to reading articles. The page partitioning sounds well-done though. I guess writers put a lot of thought into that. (Edit: ... and then I read brandnewlow's comment above mine which refutes that theory. 'Print this article' links rock.)

who says editors have no outlet for creative genius...

That bookmarklet is great! Thanks for the link. Do you know of a firefox extension that does that to persist across page views?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2006...

"Luck and perseverance also enter into it. There was one day when I considered not joining Eric at two parties; I was tired, I'd already been to a LOT of parties, I had good material, I wanted to sit down start writing. But I forced myself to go. The first turned out to be the party in the Coxes' house at the top of the story; the second was the party...at the end."

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