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Sometime in the early 1980s I heard this (probably apocryphal) story about Pablo Picasso:
The legendary artist was sitting quietly at a boulevard cafe in Paris, when his reverie was rudely disturbed by a passing tourist. Said tourist gushingly asked Pablo if he would run off a quick sketch for him, promising to pay for the [...]

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Kyle Mathews, while commenting on a recent post of mine, reminded me of an old Joel Spolsky post on building communities with software.  I remember being very taken with the post when it came out all those years ago, particularly what Joel called “the primary axiom of online communities”:
Small software implementation details result in big [...]

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