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Comment on on being beautiful by Ms. Herr

Ms. Herr — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 04:41:35 +0000

Dave, interesting points on repetition, and definitely contributors to my unease. Coincidently, as I tend to speak in circles, you’ve given me a lot to think about in an entirely different area of my life.

Comment on on being beautiful by Dave

Dave — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 03:31:21 +0000

Repetition, even of a compliment, gets a bit tedious. Worse than that, people use repetition when they suspect that you haven’t properly understood them. When a compliment is repeated, I always suspect that the giver is hoping to get some kind of recognition for either their generosity or their perception. As adults, most of us get a pretty firm idea of who we are, good and bad. Comments that confirm this seem neither generous or perceptive.

No matter how you slice it, a simple thank you is always the classiest way to respond to compliments, even the tedious ones.

Comment on will work for food by Jim P.

Jim P. — Mon, 16 May 2011 03:38:55 +0000

“We work. We earn an income. We buy things we need. We dream about things we want. We get better jobs. We earn more income. We buy the things we want. We call them needs.”

It is easy to confuse needs with wants. What you say is true though, in the end we are all working for food. Needs are actually the things that keep us alive. Wants are there though to keep us motivated. However, what is important is to be able to prioritize needs before wants.

Comment on PodCamp AZ 2010 badge hackery by Ms. Herr

Ms. Herr — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:29:40 +0000

Curtis, the pre-mixer sounds great! I’m marking my calendar now.

Comment on PodCamp AZ 2010 badge hackery by Curtis Miller

Curtis Miller — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 19:12:30 +0000

Ms. Herr:
Any Phoenix Startup Drinks planned before then?

I’m glad you asked! October is the next scheduled quarterly SD, so I was considering Thurs, Oct 21. Kind of a pre-SW mixer

BTW, it was in response to your post. Not as shiny as the other badges, but at least we have something people can add to their blog now. Thanks for inspiring us to make them!

Comment on PodCamp AZ 2010 badge hackery by Ms. Herr

Ms. Herr — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 15:57:01 +0000

Just added one, thanks Curtis. Whether you were linking to something you already had, or created these in response to my post, I’m proud to be sporting a badge.

I’ll see you at Startup Weekend, and hopefully before. Any Phoenix Startup Drinks planned before then?

Comment on PodCamp AZ 2010 badge hackery by Curtis Miller

Curtis Miller — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 05:35:03 +0000

Thanks for signing up for Startup Weekend! It’s going to be an awesome, and very intense, weekend

We threw together 2 very simple badges for SWPHX ’10, but if you have other ideas, let us know and we’ll add them to the list:

http://swphx.com/badges/

Comment on PodCamp AZ 2010 badge hackery by Ms. Herr

Ms. Herr — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 20:41:15 +0000

For sure. I’m excited to be there.

Comment on PodCamp AZ 2010 badge hackery by Chuck

Chuck — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 19:42:10 +0000

Thanks for pimping out WCPHX Going to be much better than last year – I don’t have the corp sponsor red tape issues this year… mwahaha…

See ya there

Comment on ask me anything, answer me anything – the formspring.me dilemma by Steven Haddox

Steven Haddox — Fri, 28 May 2010 19:43:27 +0000

1. What is your purpose for using formspring.me?
I have setup a formspring.me account, but haven’t really used it or integrated with my blog (lack of time). My purpose was to see what kinds of questions people would ask (if they even use it once I integrate it). Mostly curiosity to see what my followers/friends/people I hardly know would do given a chance at anonymity. I’ve always believed that what you do when you’re by yourself is who you _truly_ are and it was kind of to see what happened as an experiment off of that.

2. How will you approach questions that don’t align with that purpose (too personal, off-topic, etc.)?
I find the best way to handle these things from other people I’ve seen who’ve had the same problem is to give a generic, “This question isn’t really what I had in mind and is too personal to answer.” If you answer enough of them that way most people stop wasting time with the crappy questions because they know you won’t bother replying to it in a way they want you to.

3. How do you approach questions asked anonymously?
I make sure to keep a big wall between questions from anonymous users and any emotions or opinions I may have. For all I know it’s my ex-wife trying to make people think poorly of me, etc. Don’t take anything someone isn’t willing to ask publicly as being worth much weight / influence in your life, opinions, or even your answers

4. Would you commit to answering every question that was asked of you?
Not a chance. I’ve tried to blog even just once a week this year and so far I’ve blogged twice I think (fail). Life is just _too_ busy and hectic for me to commit to anything that isn’t really important (family, close friends, job, etc). Formspring.me would purely be for fun in what little spare time I have. Kind of like when I get into long twitter discussions with friends or browse secrettweet.com. It’s not something I do every minute of every day, but I’ll do it if I have some downtime and don’t feel like being productive right then.