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(and How Humility is a Rare Bird Indeed These Days)

I’m sensing a common theme. Another great post for the web community at large, this one giving us some perspective on fanaticism, clamoring for controversy, and not allowing humility into the picture.

But the web will still be full of arrogant, uninformed, polarizing, self-promoting, controversy-creating content that has ramifications no one wants to own up to. And consequently, the web will still be lacking in common courtesy, humility, and the admittance that most of us don’t know best. Which is sad, mostly because it’s true.

Joshua Blankenship, Creating Controversy for its own Sake

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On the whole, I agree with Tom. I think what he’s after is for us to filter ourselves, just a bit. It’s easy to react emotionally, and, because of the nature of the web, instantly. Take a moment, pause, and think if there’s a more constructive way to say what you need to say. But, when all else fails, just scream FAIL.

I’m not looking to be a hall monitor, or suggesting that people shouldn’t be angry from time to time, but right now, at this stage in web design’s evolution, we’ve swung too far away from a positive discussion.

Tom Watson, Unfounded Anger

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How do we define meaningful work?

The post where I call bullshit on your excuses.


This post is related to a quote by Malcom Gladwell. If you haven’t yet, go read it and then come back here.

Lately, I feel like I’ve had several discussions with friends who feel as if their work lacks meaning. But they don’t know where to go from there. They feel unable to discover the company or next career step that will allow them to do meaningful work. They’re not even sure what that meaningful work would be.

They’re not even sure what that meaningful work would be.

I like Gladwell’s quote, but I think for some people the general idea is a stumbling block. They’re either looking for the quick fix, where meaningful work drops in their laps, or the “high & mighty,” top-level, “save the world” meaningful work, and they can’t find it.

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iFart developer makes $40,000 in 2 days

Umm… wow…


You can click through and read the article if you want, but I believe I there isn’t anything else that needs to be said.

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