Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Why We Gloat

parislemon:

5 years ago, I made a bet. Two bets, actually.

The first was with myself. I bet myself that if I devoted serious time to it, I could become a great technology blogger. It wasn’t an easy bet to make. I knew it would require upending my life at the time. And it did. 

The second bet was related to the first. I knew that to become a key tech blogger, I would need a focus. As a relatively new Mac user myself, I decided that focus would be Apple. Yes, I was coming later to the party than some, but Apple was still a company at the time that was scoffed at by many. But drawing from my own experience, I truly felt that the company was on the cusp of changing the world. 

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Posted at 1:39 PM 61 notes Reblogged from parislemon

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  1. allmydads reblogged this from vzoom and added:
    I’ve really gotten over having any gripe with the computers people use because, at the end of the day, it doesn’t really...
  2. vzoom reblogged this from parislemon and added:
    apple fan people gloat because they want validation from other apple fan people...right...
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  6. chrischelberg reblogged this from parislemon and added:
    This. Though I’ve not been doing much...myself aloud/online (not being around people who...
  7. brnkr reblogged this from parislemon and added:
    an incredibly important lesson...learn. News is never completely unbiased (even...
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  9. ragingthunderbolt reblogged this from parislemon and added:
    parislemon congratulates himself:...Huh? Siegler wants
  10. 28daysonadiet reblogged this from parislemon and added:
    thousands. parislemon:
  11. jsbd reblogged this from parislemon and added:
    http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/business/apple-america-and-a-squeezed-middle-class.html