Pajama Entrepreneur

I am on a roll. This week I weeded out time-wasting activities such as Twitter and Jaiku. I closed my account at Linked In, stopped responding to stupid emails, and deleted 75% of my RSS feeds. To get organized and save even more time, I decided to try Backpack, an online application from [...]

Om Malik wrote in this blog about a number of people are turning away from Facebook because it wastes a lot of time (and by implication, does not yield the appropriate return):
We are not using the privacy settings of Facebook, and are too polite to say no to invitations from people who want to friend [...]

David Pogue writes in the New York Times tech blog about this first AT&T bill for the iPhone. Of course it’s filled with the usual unintelligible telco jargon:
It’s a staggeringly, hatefully complex document, designed by some Monty Pythoneseque committee in charge of consumer confusion . . . I get SIX PAGES of listings of data [...]

I had just finished writing my post “Why Linked In does not work” where I explain why I left the business networking site (decluttering my life, stop wasting time), when I saw this post by Om Malik entitled “Can privacy be a premium service” about whether there is a business in providing people more privacy. [...]

I have joined many social networking sites over the years and I have found all of them to be a waste of time, but in varying degrees, with MySpace being the most useless, followed by Tribe, Friendster and Orkut. I recently joined Facebook because my San Francisco tech buddies are all piling into it. But [...]