kn0thing

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by kn0thing 13y ago
Well, aside from pre-ordering my book and telling everyone you meet about it.... heh, you should come to one of our events! The tour list is up to 150 stops (!) http://withouttheirpermission.com/tour-dates and hopefully you
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by kn0thing 13y ago
Oh yes! Well, I want the Without Their Permission tour to help remedy that! The best thing any of you can do to help is email epicbooktour@alexisohanian.com offering to help! Even if we're 'booked' it'll still help becau
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by kn0thing 13y ago
Sorry! The schedule is so tight as it is, we just can't make it: http://withouttheirpermission.com/tour-dates but please consider coming to the Ann Arbor event or the Brand Camp event I'm doing in Detroit.
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My entrepreneurial journey from dot-bomb to starting reddit(fourhourworkweek.com)
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by kn0thing 13y ago
It's been something on my mind since SOPA/PIPA. After that, I turned my eyes toward getting people think about the internet economy happening outside of the Valley (e.g., INTERNET 2012 bus tour + documentary: http://sil
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On turning Y Combinator rejection into reddit(theatlantic.com)
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The Supersizing of American Colleges(priceonomics.com)
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by kn0thing 13y ago
Thank you very much, MysticFear! It's been loads of fun to do and the Verge production team is top shelf. I'll keep focusing on those early days, been hearing that a lot -- there's a lot more additional footage I hope makes i
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Take 5 minutes to help your superfans help you grow(withouttheirpermission.com)
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by kn0thing 13y ago
Here's the whole collection. http://imgur.com/a/oZHt1 I met George(Stratfor founder) in the greenroom at BloombergTV, I told him how much I enjoyed his reports on Armenia while I was living there for three months
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by kn0thing 13y ago
In the spirit of total transparency, I have published all of my own emails for the meeting with Stratfor and all subsequent emails: http://imgur.com/a/oZHt1 What you'll find will bore you: RECAP: I have never wo
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by kn0thing 13y ago
Haha. Thanks. Yeah I really enjoyed those Stratfor reports while I was in Armenia. I published everything in my own inbox on twitter, shared to reddit/fb/evenG+ and now here... https://www.facebook.com/alexis.ohan
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Show HN: My new show about startups -- Small Empires(theverge.com)
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by kn0thing 13y ago
That's exactly how Ryan North rolls, that magical Canadian....
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by kn0thing 13y ago
And it's under copyright, so we have to call them Adventures-of-your-own-choosing ;) http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/weiner/trial-of-the-clon... http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/we
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by kn0thing 13y ago
Employees did, but having spent time with Ryan, I can assure you he's as zany as you'd imagine. But even taller. And a wonderful person.
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by kn0thing 13y ago
Responsible for: paying* + coordinating the people who get produce the product (this includes the author herself, the designers providing art, the person doing the layout, the editor, and the printer - down to helping the authors choose pap
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by kn0thing 13y ago
Technically, that book was not "self-published," rather it was published by my company, breadpig (which also publishes xkcd, SMBC, and some other fun things like Story War!). If you're inspired, you can buy the book here: ht
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The Washington Post almost bought reddit in 2006(withouttheirpermission.com)
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by kn0thing 13y ago
Thanks, rasca123, you're correct -- I do like sugar. Probably more than I should.... but thankfully we did an episode about fitocracy too!
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by kn0thing 13y ago
I'm really proud of this first episode from my new series on The Verge called Small Empires. We're focused on NY startups this season, but I'm hoping we travel... I already am known to have a fondness for buses + roadtrips...
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Lots of faxes. Inside ZocDoc + how it defied the odds (and Guy Kawasaki)(youtube.com)
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In researching my forthcoming book, Without Their Permission, I found a great letter from Jefferson that went so far as to consider putting limits in the Bill of Rights: "Monopolies may be allowed to persons for their own productions i
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3D Printing a Better World for the Disabled(seersuckermag.com)
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by kn0thing 13y ago
Hope to see plenty of you at the NY event tomorrow! I and most of reddit's NY office will be there. http://alexisohanian.com/help-me-restore-the-fourth-this-fou...
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Small Empires - a new show on The Verge to promote tech entrepreneurship(youtube.com)
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by kn0thing 13y ago
Speaking of that awesome narrator, we commissioned him for the audiobook of a recent breadpig publication: Trial of the Clone by Zach Weinersmith. http://tinmangames.com.au/blog/?p=3239 He did an outstanding job. I wan
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by kn0thing 13y ago
Why thank you! You want a free copy of Without Their Permission? Since your read MSPL you know I can't just give it to you, it must be imbued with some value (beyond the book itself). Show me what ya got in mind!
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by kn0thing 13y ago
This is quickly turning into a book press stop! I wanted to be an immigration lawyer -- obsessing over my GPA for the first couple of years at UVA. It all changed when I walked out of an LSAT prep course one Saturday morning to get waffles
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by kn0thing 13y ago
Totally right. In fact, I was fighting with him during our YC summer about implementing tagging (which I also wanted, because we'd be able to spin up new verticals much much faster than trying to build new communities in new subreddits

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