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01 Mar 2013

I wrote about doing great work at a small startup like latakoo over on Quora:

whatever needs to be done

You can read the whole post over here.

I really like the Quora blog system. So much so that I've restarted my old blog, The Internet is People, over there (although this will remain my primary blog).

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