My Other Projects You Must
My Other Projects
You Must Spread Yourself Thin. In order to be successful, you should participate in as many unrelated activities as you can, while giving the impression that each individual activity is consuming your entire attention. It is crucial that all but your closest friends have the impression that you're probably only working on one thing--whatever concerns them most--since they want to believe that what you're doing is as important to you as it is to them.
If ever anyone wants to take a closer look at you and your activities, they will find a virtual catalog of mysterious projects that they had no idea about, and which will endear them to you forever, especially since you for some reason had never mentioned them.
Nervousness.org is a collection of experiments in land mail, and the community that can sprout from the seeds of the postal service.
Seattle Stories is one of the many City Stories sites around the world. It was started in February of 2001 by myself, Stephen, and Alan.
I work at amazon, in the Personalization & Automation web development group. We do things like Recommendations, "Customers who bought Prozac also bought these gardening implements...", etc.
These are my projects:
- Page You Made: that page that lists what items you've looked at, browse nodes you've been to, searches you've done. People either hate this or love this.
- Your Store: the tab that says Erik's Store, or whatever
- Search Explorer: you'll have to search pretty hard for that one
- Gift Wizard: soon to be revamped for h2001.
The Foster/White Gallery was my first chance to create a website whose primary purpose was to support an off-line organization. They hired me to redesign the website and take over their monthly photography so that they can concentrate on selling the art. This has gone really well, and it's got me thinking of starting a business along these lines.
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