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by amayne 8y ago
When I was a kid my buddy and I built so ething like this with plywood, a dozen garbage bags, about a mile of duct tape and three vacuum cleaners. Mom was not amused when she saw how I I’d cut up her vacuum cleaner hose.
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by amayne 8y ago
Reading through these is amazing. It’s like an alternate reality... There’s a whole article about whales attacking boats and posing a threat to shipping. My days as a novelist are numbered.
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by amayne 8y ago
Jacob Fugger might disagree... Still, a very interesting read.
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by amayne 8y ago
I've written about some of them in my book How to Write a Novella in 24 Hours'.
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by amayne 8y ago
I hop on Periscope a lot and talk. My twitter: @AndrewMayne
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by amayne 8y ago
That would be the more reasonable assumption ;) Only 30???
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by amayne 8y ago
The Tripit one is very problematic. They don’t say that you installed TripIt. I’m supposed to allow any Google third-party access to my email? Even if I didn’t initiate that? Hovering over the “allow” button doesn’t show anything. They need
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by amayne 8y ago
“Advertising: $15,422.60” I think I’ve found your problem. Your reviews are great. The endorsements are fantastic. I’ve sold over 250,000 self-published books on Amazon and as many traditionally published. However I’ve never paid more than
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by amayne 8y ago
Germany counts its non-labor workforce very differently than the US. It’s hard to make a comparison (people over 58 aren’t counted, etc.) I don’t know if it’s better or worse, just different. https://www.dw.com/en/debun
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by amayne 8y ago
The Ford pay thing is poorly understood. The factory had ridiculously high turnover and it severely impacted productivity. Nearly half the $5 wage came from a bonus after a committee visited your home and decided you were living morally acc
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I think Zuckerberg = The Joker burning IPO cash(plus.google.com)
3 points by amayne 14y ago|0 comments
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Project Glass Looks as Promising as Microsoft's Vision of the Tablet in 2001...(weirdthings.com)
1 points by amayne 15y ago|0 comments
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by amayne 15y ago
I wrote my first novel on my iPad. Got a lit agent a few months later from it. The consumption thing is bogus.
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by amayne 15y ago
Ditto.
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by amayne 15y ago
And yet they haven't repeated this with subsequent releases. Why not? I really don't know. My guess is that they think this was a one-time gimmick and not a repeatable model. I could be wrong. I hope I'm wrong.
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by amayne 15y ago
I think that's a great way to release things. Since so few people release actual numbers, it's hard to know what counts as a success. When they have big ones, like C.K. did, they tend to trumpet them loudly.
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by amayne 15y ago
Name a comedian who hasn't had this level of big media exposure to capitalize on that's done half as well...
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by amayne 15y ago
Failure is a subjective term. Radiohead released their next album at a fixed price with a rollout into traditional formats as well.
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by amayne 15y ago
NY Times and Wired.
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by amayne 15y ago
Maybe I don't get it. I'd like to see your data for point 1. Radiohead decided not to repeat their experiment. As far as an 'inordinate amount of attention', he got buzz because of the model and not the product (which people are happy with)
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by amayne 15y ago
I don't think it's a tautology. I mention several well-known online personalities that don't have big media exposure and they obviously don't have the same level of success. The formula for C.K. involved major television networks. My point
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by amayne 15y ago
Very good point. I hadn't followed up on the Radiohead experiment.
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The Louis C.K. Experiment is Flawed(plus.google.com)
13 points by amayne 15y ago|19 comments
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by amayne 15y ago
Can't find my niece's name, Annie. Not exactly a rare name. Lots of obscure ones. Oddly, it's not there.
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Is it time to Occupy Android?(plus.google.com)
13 points by amayne 15y ago|3 comments
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by amayne 15y ago
Wealth of Nations, seriously. Over two hundred years ago Adam Smith laid out the important concepts.
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Bitcoin equals World of Warcraft without the fun and how to fix it(andrewmayne.com)
2 points by amayne 15y ago|0 comments
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Did Space X just show its secret plans for a mission to Mars?(weirdthings.com)
7 points by amayne 15y ago|1 comments
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by amayne 16y ago
Before you replace a slave with a machine there are other steps. Indentured servants, share croppers, migrant labor. There is a whole ladder of human exploitation. Ultimately, slavery is a less efficient substitute for free skilled labor
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by amayne 16y ago
True. My biggest fear is that they make an alien version of the documentary The Cove about what happened to earthlings...

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