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...Especially, I think, living in any fantasy or science fiction world means really understanding what you're seeing and reading really densely on a level that a lot of people don't bother to read. So yes, I think it's kind of the same thing...
...their commutes, I posted the my first blog entry at 4 a.m. I?m rarely conscious at that hour, and I wasn?t conscious that Monday morning, either, even though I was writing at top speed about terrorism and other big topics. My fogginess didn?t bother me, however, because I?d been told to write simply and conversationally...
...Segway. I don't let it bother me. People have got to help me walk here and there, but they don't think of it as a limitation because I don't. You could also say the same thing about my ethnic background--being Asian, Chinese, in what is mainly a Caucasian world of business. I pretend it isn't there. The work-ethic part, you've got to be passionate about what you do and instill that passion. I don't expect people to do things I don't do myself. If I'm traveling coach, working 24/7, working...
...take a poll within the financial business of who the most unpopular person is, I not only think I would win, but I'd have to spend a lot of time thinking about who would come in second. On the other hand--and this is why it doesn't bother me--if you were to take a poll of investors of who the most popular person within the financial business is, I not only believe that I'd win that hands down, but again, I don't know who would come in second...
...messaging is already well established, of course. Yahoo!, MSN and AOL (owned by TIME's parent company, Time Warner) have offered it for years. And Net telephony provider Skype has 51 million people using its system. So why would Google, with an $80 billion empire built entirely on search, bother playing catch-up on a product that seems unlikely to earn it much money? The same reason a hotel offers free wi-fi, says Scott Cleland, CEO of Precursor, an investment research firm. "They're not doing it to make money on wi-fi. It's to get people...