I just read an interesting blog post by a Googler named David Wurtz. Summed up, he says that smart people should do stupid stuff. The point is that you don't have to tackle the biggest challenges to be successful; you can find something more down-to-earth and find lots of success working with that instead. A quote:
Although I endorse those who attempt to spend their time defying gravity (the world needs these people), I simply think students simply forget that the real world is not graded by professors with untamed beards. Students are largely unaware that they could realize just as much success, or perhaps even more success, if they point their incisive intellect at simpler, "stupider" problems. So why don't they?
Submitted by Chris Charabaruk on Mon, 14/12/2009 - 00:36.
Last night, I attended DemoCamp Toronto 24, my first ever DemoCamp event. Shocking, I know, that it took so long for me to attend one. The night started off with an interview of Gary Vaynerchuk of WineLibrary.tv about his experiences, as part of the tour for his new book, Crush It! (which, by the way, was being given for free to attendees.) After Gary's interview, we had a break for pizza and networking, after which there were six demos, spanning from GridCentric through to Cadmus.
I'll put down my notes from Gary's interview later on, but let's start off with the demos.
Submitted by Chris Charabaruk on Fri, 04/12/2009 - 14:11.Something I wanted to do last year was get a Coffee and Code group up and running in Oshawa. Nothing much came of it, unfortunately, thanks to a lack of viable venues. However, a lot can change in eight months, and I'm again evaluating places which could host such an event.
Submitted by Chris Charabaruk on Tue, 24/11/2009 - 07:59.A few months ago, I got the idea to use my Taskerrificbusiness cards as a way to invite people to use the service while still in private beta. It was pretty simple... Set up an invite code for an event, prepare a bunch of label stickers with the invite code on them, and then put those labels on the back of the cards I'd hand out at the event. Pretty simple.
Submitted by Chris Charabaruk on Sat, 14/11/2009 - 23:06.It took long enough, but in my defence, I'm only one guy. But yeah, Taskerrific is up and in private beta, although it feels more like an alpha release to me.
Submitted by Chris Charabaruk on Fri, 28/08/2009 - 20:03. #
