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Re: On Tech Blogs As Frat Parties

Nancy Charmichael — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:24:53 -0000

Let's be honest, the young lady is exactly right.

Lots of boob and sex references in TC. My guess: You guys are a lonely bunch. That said: it shouldn't be something women in this day and age--should have to deal with at work.

Your explanation doth protest too much, and a simple apology would get things running smoothly again.

But you're spot on wrong on this one.

Re: On Tech Blogs As Frat Parties

parislemon — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:18:45 -0000

First, that certainly seemed to be your point when you wrote, and I quote, "The signal being sent here is that women have no place in TechCrunch."

Second, so you're saying if it were one image, you would have had no problem with it? Please.

Third, I still love how you assume to know my intent even though you've never met me and/or talked to me. If you took some personal exception to an experience you had that's fine, but don't drag me into this based on assumptions you are making about a person you have never met.

Anyway, you got your recognition now. Congrats. I consider this conversation over.

Re: On Tech Blogs As Frat Parties

parislemon — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:50:22 -0000

Great point Rob. But like Paul said, these are women we know fairly well. And as I said, I wasn't there, so I won't really speak to what was or wasn't said. I just don't see an reason to attack me (or Paul) for any of this - whatever this is, if anything.

Re: On Tech Blogs As Frat Parties

parislemon — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:57:12 -0000

thx holden.

Re: On Tech Blogs As Frat Parties

parislemon — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:57:02 -0000

thx paul, looking forward to reading what you have to say as well.

Re: On Tech Blogs As Frat Parties

parislemon — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:56:46 -0000

hmm can't speak to mike's image choice there, but for mine, those were all related to the post. thx

Re: On Drumming And Distractions

EthanBauley — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:35:22 -0000

To Nate's point about the analogy itself: practicing drum kit/independence is different from "multitasking" because a lot of it is muscle memory (vs brain/attention/neurology). You're training your body to be able to execute musical ideas at some performance in the future.

I'm no Daniel Pink, but I can't imagine that there is a way to [proactively] train different parts of your brain to be able to process discrete bits of information in this way.

Or maybe the next major wave of innovation in social filtering/relevance needs to come via enhanced biology ;-) Why create bing.com/twitter when you could just pipe the firehose right into yer brain?

Great points MG. I finished my MFA in drumming in 2006 and now I'm a communications consultant so (like Nate, I think) I know exactly what you're talking about...

Re: On Drumming And Distractions

constantine — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 03:45:54 -0000

I have that exact same plan as well.

Re: On Drumming And Distractions

danielbru — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 01:08:22 -0000

Stay classy MG Siegler :)

Re: On Drumming And Distractions

parislemon — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:12:10 -0000

quite right nate, i never want to miss something. if i had to put my finger on what makes me wake up after only 5 or so hours of sleep (since i'm going to bed so late), it would be that, i really worry about what i missed while asleep.

re: drumming. clearly you know better than i. i wonder if there's a way to master independence while doing something like reading a blog post and responding to emails at the same time. we have two hands and two eyes... but yeah, my problem could very well be that when i was drumming, I was constantly thinking of something else which killed it for me.

Re: On Drumming And Distractions

parislemon — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:09:34 -0000

that's an interesting thought. i wonder how much productivity is lost versus how much is gained with email/IM/etc. obviously wolfe feels it's much more loss, that might be true in the end. though i'd argue that more creativity might be lost as a result of the distractions, which may be worse.

Re: On Drumming And Distractions

parislemon — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:07:56 -0000

yeah. at some point I have this feeling that I'll just go somewhere for a year and check nothing.

Re: On Drumming And Distractions

parislemon — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:02:19 -0000

Okay, I'll play the jazz flute.

Re: On Inbox Zero

parislemon — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:46:13 -0000

but my point is that if email influx continues to increase, will your system still work? i was working within a similar system for a while, but recently it has become untenable.

Re: On Inbox Zero

parislemon — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:26:39 -0000

love the escalator payment idea. turn email into a game, it's not unlike something i've been thinking about recently...

Re: On Inbox Zero

parislemon — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:05:42 -0000

heh i like that idea, my own assistant! sadly, one day, it may come to that.

Re: On Inbox Zero

adamjackson — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 06:32:16 -0000

I don't doubt that you get tons of email but time is the only solution once you are organized. Scott Beale actually has an FAQ on his site and will respond to emails linking to that because he gets many of the same questions.

There are always ways to optimize our email time. I think you and others can begin discovering those methods and sharing with others. There's value to email organization and people will soak it up.

Do you think you're spending 4 hours a day on email or less? Is bacn properly managed? Are there rules setup for emails coming from techcrunch.com domains to get special labels and stuff from your mom going to it's own folder?

I have a folder for emails from addresses that aren't bacn and aren't in my address book so I know they're a lower priority. There are things we can do to make it easier but I'm with you in saying email was my job before and 400 emails was a 10 hour a day job. Even when I was organized. So yeah at a point humans just can't be awake 24 hours a day to get every email that comes in.

Re: On Inbox Zero

parislemon — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 06:23:10 -0000

Right, you manage it now, but my point is that with email continually increasing, eventually you will reach a point where you would need to spend more hours a day in front of the computer then there are hours in a day.

Re: On Sleep

parislemon — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 05:23:08 -0000

Ha. Wow. Who would want to pass that kind of dream up?

Re: How Does Schmidt Like Them Apples?

parislemon — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:29:52 -0000

that's a very good question. maybe you remember my VB post about that situation. with schmidt now out, it could make things easier, and with no litigation about the Pre's multi-touch I suspect we will see Android multi-touch relatively soon. but the rumors of it in donut proved premature.

Re: iPhone To Windows Mobile

parislemon — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 06:43:40 -0000

And let me just be clear. I do think this is great. BUT this sounds like a headache, and is the same reason why we don't see developers port across other mobile platforms on a large scale currently. The big guys can do it, the small guys (for the most part) won't. It sucks, but that's the way it will be for the foreseeable future.

Re: iPhone To Windows Mobile

parislemon — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 06:37:37 -0000

Shouldn't you be sleeping?

Re: The AP Puts A Gun To Its Head. And A Grenade. And A Rocket Launcher.

parislemon — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:54:50 -0000

that, my friend, is a great question.

Re: On Being Divisive

facebook-100000065648790 — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:20:49 -0000

Sorry about that creepy anonymous look btw... after 10 years developing on the web I still find myself unable to work Facebook's privacy settings... and Twitter was even better (varying levels of apparent success and two interesting error messages logging in here earlier ("Twitter is over capacity" and the best one "The server understood the request but is refusing to fill it" ;)

Re: On Being Divisive

parislemon — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:57:31 -0000

That's nice. I try not to let too many hours go by :)