Comments on: SilverOrange looking for a designer http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/09/02/silverorange-looking-for-a-designer/ This can all be made better. Ready? Begin. Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:32:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Steven Garrity http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/09/02/silverorange-looking-for-a-designer/comment-page-1/#comment-15929 Steven Garrity Mon, 04 Sep 2006 02:03:16 +0000 http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/09/02/silverorange-looking-for-a-designer/#comment-15929 Just imagine where you'd be if my post was about knitting or something... Just imagine where you’d be if my post was about knitting or something…

]]> By: Chris Messina http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/09/02/silverorange-looking-for-a-designer/comment-page-1/#comment-15652 Chris Messina Sun, 03 Sep 2006 00:39:19 +0000 http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/09/02/silverorange-looking-for-a-designer/#comment-15652 Totally. I call it <em>accelerating serendipity</em>. It's a small world, to be sure, but the more you think about it, well, actually it's only small for each of our perspectives, since the reality is that the enormity of our collective experience and connections is so beyond comprehension that we can't even grasp how large the world really is. More and more I find out about new things and new pockets of people I'd never heard of or explored... my sphere of reality also pertains almost entirely to English-speaking peoples... to imagine the myriad of ideas that are floating out in other locales just blows me away! Totally. I call it accelerating serendipity.

It’s a small world, to be sure, but the more you think about it, well, actually it’s only small for each of our perspectives, since the reality is that the enormity of our collective experience and connections is so beyond comprehension that we can’t even grasp how large the world really is.

More and more I find out about new things and new pockets of people I’d never heard of or explored… my sphere of reality also pertains almost entirely to English-speaking peoples… to imagine the myriad of ideas that are floating out in other locales just blows me away!

]]> By: Fred http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/09/02/silverorange-looking-for-a-designer/comment-page-1/#comment-15640 Fred Sun, 03 Sep 2006 00:06:43 +0000 http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/09/02/silverorange-looking-for-a-designer/#comment-15640 Fate is beautiful. I got my first tech job cold calling internet consultants in the Yellow pages (this was 1997, everyone was an internet consultant), leaving messages on voice mail telling people that I knew how to design web pages. Incredibly, one of those people called me back and told me he'd pay me ten dollars an hour for web design - a king's ransom for a college Sophomore. The job he was working on was a consulting gig at Nortel - that got me in the door and led to my first industry job. The rest, as they say, is history. Interestingly enough, the way I found you was by googling "Google resume". When we were designing claimID we wanted to read about people's experience with their online identity, and google resume was a term we used in our searches. We found you, Terrell commented on your blog, and you wrote us back. You've had a great, extremely positive impact on ClaimID so I think we can say the rest was history. This whole fate and internet and global connections thing...its crazy isn't it. Fate is beautiful. I got my first tech job cold calling internet consultants in the Yellow pages (this was 1997, everyone was an internet consultant), leaving messages on voice mail telling people that I knew how to design web pages. Incredibly, one of those people called me back and told me he’d pay me ten dollars an hour for web design – a king’s ransom for a college Sophomore. The job he was working on was a consulting gig at Nortel – that got me in the door and led to my first industry job. The rest, as they say, is history.

Interestingly enough, the way I found you was by googling “Google resume”. When we were designing claimID we wanted to read about people’s experience with their online identity, and google resume was a term we used in our searches. We found you, Terrell commented on your blog, and you wrote us back. You’ve had a great, extremely positive impact on ClaimID so I think we can say the rest was history.

This whole fate and internet and global connections thing…its crazy isn’t it.

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