(A slight departure from regular programming.)This is long overdue...
A few weeks back, Everett, a Multiply employee, contacted me asking for my snail mail address so he could send me a Multiply t-shirt. I don't recall the exact things he said, but they were happy for what I was doing at Refugees, helping out the new members and stuff.
I declined the generous folks offer, asking only for a few different shots of the shirt so I could edit my avatar in and post it on my page. I've uploaded that as my headshot.
It wasn't the t-shirt, though. It was the recognition. I was ecstatic that Multiply had took notice and wanted to reciprocate. I mean, really, coming from Yahoo! where the little people in 360 stared up, gazing at the top of the Yahoo! skyscraper, trying to get some attention... and here, I was just blown away by this.
The whole thing that still perplexes me is that, truthfully, I'm really not that helpful of a guy in real life, especially at work. I have always been pretty quick to pick things up, and subconsciously I expect others to, so I often get irritated when people ask for help for things that I think they should know how to do.
I believe that I have another facet of my personality that makes up for that. I can't stand to see people do things wrong or inefficently. If you are struggling to do something, I'm the type of person that comes in, and says, "No, that's wrong, do it this way next time. It'll work better, trust me," in an annoyingly brusque manner.
That's why I often find myself pondering why. What possessed me to start Refugees when five of my friends had set up accounts here to scope the place? What made me spread the word through my friends and ask them to ask their friends? What made the group successful, in my eyes, and why am I still doing it?
This type of thing is uncharacteristic for me... perhaps this is an example of how time online blends into things in real life.
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2 comments:
You should have taken the damned t-shirt. You're going to start jogging soon - remember? ;P
Remind me to send you a copy of my manuscript when I finish since you're so brutally honest. I usually don't appreciate people butting their nose in where I don't ask for it ... but, then, when I finally DO ask, you can't find an honest soul in the crowd.
Kudos
You should have taken the damned t-shirt. You're going to start jogging soon - remember? ;P
Remind me to send you a copy of my manuscript when I finish since you're so brutally honest. I usually don't appreciate people butting their nose in where I don't ask for it ... but, then, when I finally DO ask, you can't find an honest soul in the crowd.
Kudos
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