Not having enough time to finish writing a post that I started 7 weeks ago now is starting to drive me nuts. Not having enough time generally is sucking. I'm down to an average of 4-5 hours of sleep a night over the last month or so. But the causes are all good, so ...

In the meantime, I need to link to this kick-ass press about Flickr though (I think this link is time limited). My two favorite lines:

But the folks who've created www.Flickr.com get it. They get it, and then they went and beat up some kid on the playground and they took his stuff, too.

(hee!) and ...

The Flickr folk succeed, essentially, by stealing damn near every single great idea that's floating around on the Internet.

That last point is very true. People are so afraid of stealing, and they're so afraid of being stolen from. It's insane. Because by "stealing" I just mean taking other people's ideas. That's what ideas are for. That's why there's music. That's why there's culture.

A lot of innovation goes on in our offices, but one of the reasons the results are good is because we have no fear of recombinant idea folding. Our egos don't get fed from being recognized for inventing cool shit and then taking all the credit for it, but from playing the game large, on the field with everyone else, part of the ecosystem; we have no 'not invented here' syndrome.


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