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The Freelance Series: Do Your Work. Pay Your Taxes.

04-Dec-11

Whenever I speak to someone with a full-time job and they get that wistful look on their face and say “I might try working from home”, I kind of smile. If they notice, I’m generally asked “What’s so funny?” I’ll respond with “Do your work. Pay your taxes.” Mostly they’ll wave their hand and give [...]

Amateur, shmamateur.

15-Jul-07

THE CULT OF THE AMATEUR Host Nora Young in conversation with Andrew Keen, author of The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet is Killing our Culture. While the potential of the internet is all the rage, Keen, a Silicon Valley alumnus, has written a polemic arguing that everything we know about the Internet is [...]