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1. For the St Vincent Mixtape Delivery Service, Annie Clark takes one story from a collection sent in by listeners. Its real life stuff such as a roadtrip a persons planning or a major life event they're going through. The tracks suit it and theres a call between Clark and the person who sent in their story. Gah, thats a bad description but trust me when I say its very unique.

2. Josh Homme is Josh Homme - he's funny as fuck and makes great picks. Also had Alex Turner on interviewing too. Basically two of my heroes.

I've spent the past 7 years doing the startup grind dreaming of that huge exit. It hasn't come. Instead I've got a revised sense of priorities and of how long I've got left on this planet. Better than any amount of money.

Sort of a case of the rich becoming richer.

I haven't looked for work in about 2 years. I'm lucky enough to get referrals these days.

My experience with elance/odesk is pretty terrible. Focus on quality not quantity clients (even in the early days).

Nothing wrong with taking a full time job and doing said contracts on the side either - so long as the client understands, of course. And once you've built a portfolio app/site on the side then they'll have some degree of confidence in your ability to deliver.

Let's keep this going.

^Thats quite an assumption to make, no?

For the record, I've never done any of the above.

I meant the outcome from a professional standpoint was fair. I don't believe how her life has been "ruined" as I've explained elsewhere.

^Agreed but Louis CK is a world famous comedian. When he speaks I know to take most of what he says in jest. Theres a context I can apply when he speaks.

A counterpoint to this would be that she had a small following on Twitter, most of whom she may know in real life, who likely know that she was joking. They can apply a similar context because of their relationship with her.

However, I would expect her to know that people will be able to read a tweet without that context - thus taking it out of context - and reacting accordingly.

I literally cannot read the tweet as bigoted or racist

^And that's okay. I see it differently. We all take different understandings of things. The tweeter should have considered this when posting the tweet.

If you feel like Gawker would be interested in running a piece on my comment then feel free to go ahead and submit it.

I'm saying she did something really stupid. I don't know anything else about the woman bar the fact that she seems to have a very nice taste in New York social spots.

Anyone who thinks they can reasonably judge anyone based on any single post, much less 140 characters, is not doing a great job of being a citizen in the 21st century.

^ If you're referring to me, as I said, I'm not judging her. But it's great that you see fit to lay down a marker for what constitutes being a good citizen.

What we can or cannot imagine has absolutely nothing to do with what is real. This is the lesson of three hundred years of science. This is why ideas must be publicly tested by systematic observation, controlled experiment and Bayesian inference to be counted as knowledge.

^wat

This is not to say we must never judge, but that judgement is far more difficult than most people realize, and they are far too quick to do it based on far too little information and far too much imagination.

^ Agreed, but unfortunately thats a symptom a lot of the internet suffers (arguably, feeds) from.

However, it's pretty easy to see how it could be considered a racist and bigoted tweet and I'd expect her to have realised this before sending it.

EDIT: I totally agree that scuttling someones life on career off the back of one tweet is unfair - I 100% agree with that. As I said in the original comment, the bullying she experienced was totally unfair.

I don't believe, however, that her career is ruined by it - evidenced by the fact that she's now gainfully employed. I think it's definitely a red flag on her resume but by doing volunteer service after the fact I'd be surprised if any company wouldn't see this as "I did something dumb, I learnt and grew from it".

Professionals in PR should naturally be extra-vigilant about issues like these.

To repeat: she did not deserve ANY bullying or harassment whatsoever.

Did you experience consequences of the stupid actions you've taken?

Twitter & FB aren't the problem. A lack of awareness and judgement is.

No one deserves to be bullied or harassed but consequences need to exist to actions.

However, I think 9+ hours a day is crazy and if you think you're being effective for 9+ hours then you're mad. However, I do think its possible in short bursts (about 3-4 weeks absolute max).

I've worked in startups for about six years so have plenty of personal experience in this.

Anyway, here's your latte.

Were that the case then we'd only have one product in each market where, by your definition, the market would allow all but one to die out.

As a generalist I find myself in high demand, commanding strong rates and being in the position of building a web or mobile product from start to finish as I want.

By defintion, most people are going to be average in the field. A little extra enthusiasm, ambition, discipline and hard work will push you out of the average.

Show me one "real class" professional who only performed in one field.

More "functionality"? Better marketing? Better UI? Better traction? Better team?

Final point: it seems like you consider investment to be a necessity to build a company. It's not.