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The question was "if you're wildly successful at something with significant real world influence, why would you care so strongly about something as relatively inconsequential as a board game or a video game?"
You kind of answered the question yourself. He cares so much because he is successful in something else and has extended that need for success into other areas of his life. It seems this is common among successful people, they try to be successful in everything else in their lives, perhaps not realizing they might have got lucky in one area and are convinced they can apply that to all other areas of their lives.
Be concise, be upfront about what you want to say, don't make your readers work hard to understand what you're trying to say.
Your readers will also tell you about your content's quality and relevance through their visits. Check your site visits, understand if they're one time visitors or returning and figure out why that's happening.
You might also want to get a domain for your blog, it projects more of a commitment than a subdomain.
Location: Toronto, Canada
Remote: yes
Willing to relocate: no
Technologies: Microsoft stack
Résumé/CV: https://erikwestermann.com/technical-resume-2
Email: [email protected]
Many years experience with BizTalk, .Net, c#. Design, requirements gathering, architecture
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: mostly Microsoft but diverse background and fast learner
Résumé/CV: erikwestermann.com, choose technical or creative resume
Email: [email protected]
Although my technical background is in Microsoft technologies, I have a diverse background and am seeking a position of writer, technical or otherwise. I'm a fast learner and motivated with lots of writing experience with 3 published books and many articles. I have available both my technical as well as creative/writer resumes on my website.
Over 15 years experience with Microsoft technologies and specialization in integration using BizTalk server. Broad range of industries and sizes of implemented systems with excellent verbal as well as written communication skills.
erik.westermann[at]gmail
...not in Canada!
Latest we have is from 1996 (not actually of course, but what's available on Netflix Canada lags pretty far behind Netflix US)
This works...
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2014/sep14/09-30fu...
Plus, who knows, by reviewing all of the headlines you just might find a gem of a story.
Your story is really nice and your motivation is well stated in your blog post: "...the fragmented condition and outdated technologies of the commercial real estate industry continued to frustrate me.....I decided to find a better solution"
I feel your story stands out with that one sentence - it would have been better to lead with that. I also feel the emphasis on your age and role as a single parent takes away from your central motivation when you lead with those points.
My 0.0000424 btc! Good luck with your startup
I design and create SOA solutions through services exposed by/through BizTalk and build an ESB solution to orchestrate the services which acts as a substrate for 'composable' applications (again, using BizTalk and apps that use the services are web-based, or whatever client apps the organization wants to use; many apps are integrations between systems like line of business using various approaches that include EDI, etc).
"um, you broke it. I could blame myself for letting you break it but that would make an ass out of you and me :)"
Nice try!
Maybe PhoneGap...balsamiq...plus there are lots of apps for prototyping using an iPad.
The article also advises to find your niche...be careful of going too specialized - there are thousands of apps around and getting too specialized could be detrimental since so many other apps might cover your niche plus many others (like teaching only addition when other math educational apps teach other operations in addition to addition)
You're putting the candidate in a very vulnerable and stressful position:
You're potentially asking a candidate to solve a problem with your application (even if scaled down)--
The question/assignment could be a long-standing issue your staff have been unable to address on their own and you want to try to find out whether you can get a free solution from qualified people.
The candidate(s) could get the correct answer, yet you could walk away from the process with a free solution.
>> "I think very few people have ever declined"
That's short-sighted - they're not declining because the want/need a job and are already vulnerable during the process; many would not, understandably, have the presence of mind to decline.
Nice 'onboarding' with the call to action to tweet to get rewarded with more info
'There are no breakout apps. There is no WhatsApp or DrawSomething. App.net remains a plaything for developers...'
...it certainly took them long enough to get to it.
* the owner to constructively handle issues like this (maybe like educating the 'offender') * the 'offender' to learn from his mistake and understand it in a broader context
All we have here is action: twitter-shame non-tipper; result: fired. Very short-sighted.
As far as the story itself goes - tipping is optional (even for large/huge orders), so the guy was in the wrong to begin with.
A copy editor will challenge your sentence structures, paragraphs, overall flow, and much more.
Compare what you wrote before the copy editor did their work, versus after - you'll see a big difference.
Note that copy editing is often an iterative process - so you'll work with the editor as you complete your revisions.
Yet in the end it is your book, so you don't have to follow the copy editor's suggestions if you think you're right/know your topic more than he or she does/etc.
Out of the first 9 paragraphs in 'Focus on Delivering Results' you use "I" in 6 of them - you start 3 of them with "I". The excerpt reads more like a biography.
I don't know whether you worked with a copy editor - if you didn't, you should have.
You also should have had some independent reviews prior to publishing - maybe someone would have been kind enough to tell you about all of those "I"s - they make the text "feel" rough and unfinished.
You could go crazy with the "I"s in your "about the author" section, yet let the book's content speak for itself.
Given this, the excerpt diminishes the book's value for me, so it's unlikely I would pay $25 for it. If I wanted a biography, I would get a biography.