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Links for 2007-03-11

SOME EXCELLENT STUFF TODAY. Check this out:

Substance of style by Sims Wyeth (topically unrelated to my today’s post). “I bristle at those who say to presenters, “Just be yourself.” Which self? The self that converses with my best friend’s grandmother at her dining room table, or the guy who teases his teammates and drinks beer while taking off his hockey equipment in the locker room?

Bootstrapping your business at Starbucks: “In ‘Lawrence of Arabia,’ the bedouins always felt like they were on the warpath. They had greater cause,” said Niall Kennedy, a 27-year-old San Franciscan who quit his day job at Microsoft Corp. to run his own Web company, Patrick Media, out of cafes and a rented desk. “At a startup, you’re always on the go, plowing ahead, with some higher cause driving you.” (via Venture Chronicles – more on Web Worker Daily, and even more here)

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