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Come Sail Away by Styx!
The only truly failed project is the one where you didn’t learn anything along the way.
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| — | Jeff Atwood |
School was the big thing for a long time. School is tests and credits and notetaking and meeting standards. Learning, on the other hand, is ‘getting it’. It’s the conceptual breakthrough that permits the student to understand it then move on to something else. Learning doesn’t care about workbooks or long checklists.
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| — | Seth Godin in Education at the Crossroads |
I love the Mythbuster’s show, and Adam Savage in the man. That, and he is even cooler for using a Mac!
Ultimately, you have to decide which is more important — building your own brand, or building the brand of the website you’re contributing to? While these two concepts are not necessarily opposed, I strongly urge everyone reading this to err on the side of building your own brand whenever possible. Websites tend to come and go; the only sensible long term strategy is to invest in something that’s guaranteed to be around for the rest of your life: you.
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| — | Jeff Atwood in his latest post about digital sharecroppers and user generated content |
