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Your high IQ Will Kill Your Startup

This article was originally published on March 4, 2010 at Max Klein’s blog.

It has since fallen off the Internet and into the great 404 void. I am republishing it here because it is one of the very few blog posts that I’ve read in my lifetime that have stuck with me. If the original comes back online, please kindly comment below and I’ll remove this copy from my blog. In 2004 I was in Brazil, walking down the hill in Lapa to get some lunch. I was with a friend who I had met in the hostel I was staying – his name was Ofer. We were having a discussion about intelligence, and what role it plays in success. Then out of the side of the road…

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Your high IQ will kill your startup

Analyzing 11,555 Questions Asked by SEOs: The Moz Q&A Meta Study

The author’s posts are entirely his or her own (excluding the unlikely event of hypnosis) and may not always reflect the views of Moz. Sometimes we don’t need to travel to exotic linked data sources to discover treasure troves of precious information about our audience’s desires, aspirations, fears, and complaints. Sometimes that treasure is just far as a phone call to the customer care department. Sometimes it is just a click away in the Q&A and/or Forum section of our site. And sometimes it’s just there, freely offered by our own competitors to everybody able to retrieve the correct information from them. Understanding what our audience is really talking about, what the specific language is that they use, and what their topics and themes …

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Analyzing 11,555 Questions Asked by SEOs: The Moz Q&A Meta Study


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How WordPress Could Power the New York Times

Last week, the New York Times gave us an inside look at their custom CMS, Scoop. Though a few NYTimes blogs run on WordPress, the main site is managed by a fairly massive custom effort. It got me thinking about how far WordPress has come in terms of managing complex websites and applications, and all of the work that still needs to be done. Data Management One of the major advantages of Scoop was its ability to store content and data in meaningful ways. This includes the basics like a robust tagging hierarchy but also the ability to store all of the drafts of every post. This allows the NYTimes editors to output their content however they want, from arranging post drafts like Microsoft Word’s…

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How WordPress Could Power the New York Times

5 Alternatives to Default WordPress Comments

Whether you’re an artist, a business owner or just a person with lots of thoughts on lots of subjects, odds are you have a blog. And you very well might have that blog hosted on WordPress, as recent statistics point out that 41.6 million new blog posts are made on the site each month. While the blog-hosting site provides users with a myriad of benefits, the fact of the matter remains that there are some areas where improvements could be made. One such area is that of commenting. Since WordPress was launched in 2003’s more than a decade ago, the site has boasted commenting functionality. The problem? That functionality hasn’t been updated since it was first introduced 11 years ago. If one year is seven years…

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5 Alternatives to Default WordPress Comments

Stop writing code, start drawing it

Abduzeedo is a blog about design. There are all sorts of articles for those who want to look for inspiration. Also you will find very useful tutorials for the most used applications out there, with a special selection of Photoshop Tutorials and Illustrator Tutorials. Of course there are other softwares conteplated like Pixelmator, Fireworks, and web design tutorials.

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Stop writing code, start drawing it

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