sritch

You have a great radio voice.

Why should you be entitled to something free because you never planned to buy it? Please explain

What does that matter?

Yes it does...you deprived the artist of making money as opposed to depriving yourself of music and movies. How does that not apply? You took for free what others paid for.. Your income doesn't matter. Poor people aren't entitled to free goods because they were never going to drive business anyway.

@Falling3 - If you mean to tell me that the majority of people who download copyrighted items, then go forward to buy the music, sure your argument is fair.

@Tomp - Well it's hard to compare digital products to physical products since you don't have to create the item more than once for a digital good. Just because you didn't plan to pay anyway, doesn't make it any less "stealing" You can't use the argument "I was never going to buy it anyway" as a valid reason for stealing something.

The comparison is flawed. The theft is not of the physical product, but of the proceeds or profits.

This gives me faith in the youth of my generation...but also makes me feel like I am an idiot by comparison.

She writes remarkably well for a nine year-old, quite witty. I may have smirked a couple times.

Maybe knowing how to network properly is important... You can't just meet someone and say "Call me when you hear anything!" I got my current job essentially through LinkedIn. I reached out to employees at the firm/agency I wanted to work at to hear about what it was like to work there, etc. After a couple weeks we talked again and I asked how to get started in the industry, if they had anything available, etc.

Networking isn't a one-off kind of thing, essentially you are trying to be something of a 'friend' to this person, benefiting both parties.

Why don't we book a phone consult with Steve to find out? Only 997$ USD

Is this all just visual design? Or are you showing how to actually integrate it into CSS or however it will be implemented?

The way I do it is two things. The first and most obvious (as most state) is to just live your life normally, and think about the things you are doing or observing. Why am I doing it this way? Is this the best way? X is so boring/tedious, surely there is a better way.

The second way is to read - not just articles or HN, but novels or non-fiction are another source for me. It functions in the same way as the first: chances are the main character or at parts in the story you will notice things that seem impractical. I noticed this while reading case studies at school, the authors usually explicitly point out that "this industry was fragmented" or so forth.

Isn't this a little misleading? If you have a million users and not a single chance of ever monetizing, your userbase isn't as valuable as those with say, 10k users who are already collecting money from them all.

I think that people these days are being taught or encouraged to only do what you love, and the thing is, we all can't. You have to take the crappy job at one point or another or you'll end up unemployed if you're too picky.

However, in the case of this article, it's funny that the crappy job is the one that is most sought after.

A little more about the idea would be helpful. What are you looking for?

Ironically this is one of the first books I read that spurred my interest into Personal Finance. Ha.

Is it worth doing visual mockups for my customer development? Or just explaining the idea