jchewitt

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by jchewitt 11y ago
If you read the short book / media project ( http://www.strongtowns.org/ ) referred to in the post, you'd see that the author (not the blogger) covers this issue amply. It's not a ra-ra-cities-good-burbs-bad b
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by jchewitt 11y ago
It's also possible that employee productivity doesn't matter as much as the speculative price of the company's shares. If the company's office plan looks like Google's, then surely they're going to generate ear
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by jchewitt 11y ago
You're right to correct me. Most of the works ever written have been lost to history. What I said holds for books that have been popular, historically significant, or valued enough to be widely preserved and archived.
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by jchewitt 11y ago
The hilarious thing is that the reason why open office spaces are popular in expensive real estate markets holds no water in the Midwest where there's ample space. People just do it to cargo cult the woo-magic ideology of open office s
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by jchewitt 11y ago
The web is full of misleading garbage, but you can get every book ever written inexpensively or free from some combination of Archive.org and Amazon. Many books are trash, but at least we have some means of sorting them. The web is a big po
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by jchewitt 11y ago
KDP is far from "oppressive." Authors are totally free to sell directly from their own websites, through DRM-free platforms like Gumroad or Smashwords, and a whole bunch of other options. What authors get from KDP is a larger cut
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by jchewitt 11y ago
Steam implemented tags (and, appropriately enough, a personalized 'discover' queue) and it helps. On Amazon's non-app store, you can also buy search ads. Apple could implement something similar and take a larger cut of the pa