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I admit this. You're completely correct.
Looking back on my behavior and I realize it stemmed from a deeper issue I was having within myself that I've just recently began to fix.
so although I feel my actions at the time made sense given the situation and emotions I was personally going through, I completely agree with your observation and promise that the experience and end result of my actions in the situation opened my eyes to new lessons to be learned and self-healing that I had to do.
One thing I can say is that my public display in that situation doesn't quite mirror the actual happenings behind the scenes. I could tell you more if we sat down in person and discussed. Thank you for the comment. -
Good question. Nope. Humans haven't learned how to use email properly yet. When they do, then IM is next, then video conferencing then they can learn how to actually use MS Word correctly.
I'm still trying to master email and until I do, I really shouldn't beg for more products. The tools to get work done and simplify our lives have been around for the past decade, everything else is just crap thrown on top of stuff we don't yet fully understand. -
Social networks are a starting ground for something great. They shouldn't be the extent of all social interactions.
This was a mistake that I made. Twitter is a good starting point. this post will help illustrate that.
http://blog.adam-jackson.net/2009/07/20/twitter-the-gateway-drug-to-social-networking/ -
Yes. That's why I've stopped. Thanks for asking.
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No regrets. Only lessons.
If I didn't learn my lesson with each experience, I would simply continue attempting the same things expecting a different result.
AdamsBlock shouldn't have been handled any differently because I handled it exactly how I should have given my age and experience and past experiences. doing it differently was beyond my capacity at that time.
Having gone through it, I embrace and am thankful for everything that happened because it prepared me for the next experience. So, in a shorter answer, no it was great. -
Well, I opened this up simply because I get these anonymous messages in my email inbox each day. Why answer these privately again and again when I could just start responding in this form publicly?
No one that's questioned me so far is an asshole. Everyone has questions and I'm okay with answering most of them publicly and others are better responded to privately.
No one is wrong here but without feedback like this, I can't hope to improve. This has been a fun experiment but it's slowly becoming a waste of time. For now, I'll entertain the game. Thanks for writing. -
That was June of 2008 which was the month I moved to San Francisco.
You have to realize how long ago that was and if I continued acting that way today, that would mean for over a year and a half, I continued bearing the same traits without ever evolving or growing and at the age of 23, every month I should be changing slightly as I grow older.
The same thing could be said about you and how you acted at the age of 19 or 20 and things that were new and unique and how you are now.
My point is, I admit that it was awkward but that was a while ago and I've learned and changed so much since then. I don't regret my actions or behavior but I've evolved and that's much more important.
There are a number of things that I could say were awkward or phony back then but it doesn't change who I am today. We have to look inward before we can improve ourselves. I've just recently learned this lesson and it's improved much of how I look at the world.
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Sorry but I haven't. I guess we'll never understand each other. Based on my limited knowledge of politics (which is simply based on what national news tells me about politics), I'd say that most politicians are dishonest. I'm not and that's the difference.
Sigh. I was sincere in my response. It's been nice chatting with you but I don't think we can continue the games. Sorry that you weren't willing to chat person to person. Thanks. -
Well, it looks like we're finally getting somewhere with this conversation. In all honesty and sincerity, I want to share with you my opinion in all of this.
We all make mistakes in life and are unprepared for the future and what it has in store for us. Each person that you named is on their own path with their own initiative and goal.
My path is my own and despite the fact that I may not respect or value the choices of some people, I choose to not dictate how they should live their lives because it's not my place. Furthermore, I need to spend more time improving myself before I could ever tell someone how to live their life.
I understand that you are unhappy or unsettled with how the 6 of us live our lives and how we get by. that's okay but the one thing that I don't want to happen is to miss out on the valuable and most likely, painful advice that you have for all of us.
The fact that you've said this is okay to me and I understand that not everyone will agree with what I do but the biggest mistake I would make is to ignore you and let your words cause me to act defensively. With that said, I'd be doing both of us a disservice if I didn't invite you to meet with me in person so I can learn from what you have to say.
The crucial thing that most people miss out on is to react negatively or defensively to people and miss the ultimate lesson and I admit that I do this far too often. If you'll let me treat you, it would help us both to meet and learn a few things.
I mean that from the bottom of my heart. If you decline, I'll simply have to stop this back and forth because we will not be going anywhere if we continue a virtual boxing match.
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Thanks for the follow up.
1. If you know me in real life then you'll have no problem calling me directly and asking these questions. Trust me, I'd be happy to answer them. This really isn't the best medium for discussing such things.
2. Besides, you're completely incorrect. I haven't attended a "tech party" outside of conferences in a while. The first one I attended in over 4 months was the Bing party in early December. I was photographed with Kevin Rose twice and he and I have exchanged emails and it's not a "fanboy thing". However, I admit it was back in 2007 but upon moving to San Francisco I realized that it was childish.
These days, I don't attend tech parties and I don't pose for photos with random people that I don't already now. The fact that you have so much wrong about me leads me to believe that you don't "know me" and you are simply going off limited info I post to Twitter.
My point is I'll let you in and explain a bit more and hopefully learn more about you as well in a private means or in person. I'm totally okay with that. This system and your questions leads me to assume that you won't go for that which is sad because you have misunderstood so much about me so far. -
Things are going a lot better than you think they are. Then again, no matter what I say publicly, you'll still find a way to criticize me and find flaws. That's ok because I opened myself up for the ridicule but in regards to this specific question, you are wrong about the economics of my living expenses and income and the electronics I purchase and how I get them. That's all that should be said.
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That's actually not true. It's good to hear that someone is following along so closely and I'd say that you're following along a lot closer than most people.
I still have an agent at WME (William Morris Endeavor) and the book is complete.
Just because you have completed a book and just because you have an agent, doesn't guarantee a book will be picked up by a publisher.
Me being dead weight actually wasn't the reason Dom and I split. It was for other reasons that I'd love to share with you privately. Thanks for asking. -
Hi there. The term, "marketable skills" can be looked at in many different ways. I'm not going to sit here and confess my entire background, besides my resume is online for all to read and see on my website.
I will say that I am interested in coding but after taking HTML and visual basic when I was 18, I realized it wasn't for me. I just can't get into it and truly be interested in the code. I know basic HTML but just enough to read and dissect it and not to hand code.
I have quite a few marketable skills though that have enabled me to make a decent living especially compared to those people who are also 23 w/ no college degree just like me.
Considering my age and education, the work experience I have received enables me to make a lot more than people my age and I'm pretty happy about that. Thanks for stopping by. -
Hi there. I started thinking about this at my one year mark of living in San Francisco and realized it was way too much to simply tweet about or write in a quick blog post.
So, I spent 2 weeks blogging about things I wish I knew and divided it up in different blog posts. It was aimed for a person getting into technology but most of the posts are relevant to a lot of different careers.
http://blog.adam-jackson.net/category/one-year-in-sf/
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I do a lot of stuff. My day job is acting as a community manager / tech support lead for a small startup called http://yoono.com.
I also run a small, but fast growing company, called http://tweetformybiz.com where I have an employee and we tweet as companies (mostly startups) doing tech support, promotion and marketing.
For extra cash, I'll do some training on social networks for small companies, speaking engagements here and there and will do guest blogging or editorials for blogs.
My book about Twitter is completely done. I'm trying to "sell it" to a publisher and actually become published. That's been a work in progress for a while now.
There are a few other ideas in my head that I want to take on but the past few months have been more about simplifying my work and improving my life and health instead. So getting less work done lately but having a much better lifestyle. Thanks for asking. -
Excellent question. Well, I've tried to delete many of the tweets that came through automatically (blog posts, flickr posts and location updates) and most of those have been deleted.
The fact that I posted this update was more of just a test to see if people like you would come here to anonymously fuck with me. I was right.
Calling me a hypocrite is almost accurate but not entirely but it doesn't matter because you'll find another term to classify me under at some point.
Oh but thanks for stopping by my Twitter profile to see what I'm up to depsite my tweet saying that I had left. I guess you need me more than I need you. Have a good day and happy new year. -
That's a very long question that would need a really long answer. I use Twitter as a way to share what I'm doing but only if I think it'll be interesting. The advantage is some people start to tell me they are looking forward to my tweets but the disadvantage is that I get some negative reaction because some of my thoughts are misunderstood.
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Hello "sflurker". I wanted to respond to you sooner but your tweets were pretty rude and thus made this question kind of worthless to answer. I'll entertain it though and say, "yes of course." A stream of every single thought would exceed a thousand a day and in order to function in society, I don't tweet every thought. In fact, every 3 months I'll take 2-10 days off Twitter as a break to catch my breath and be off Twitter completely. My stream now is pretty empty starting last week through the first of January. Thanks for asking and have a good night.
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Working independently would be my choice. I can work on something for someone else if I truly believe in the product and company. However, the only way you'll get every ounce of me (for little pay) is to let me take the reigns and shape it to be my own. I work well with teams but prefer the independence and hard work it takes to run something myself. I screw up a lot more but learn much more valuable lessons going at it on my own.
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Nope. I have two sisters on one side and another two sisters and a brother on the other side. My sibling who is closest in age to me is 10 years younger. All of the other ones are more than 10 years younger so none of them are even on Facebook or Twitter. Sorry to disappoint.
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