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trg2··on Ask HN: How do I start being a consultant?
I highly recommend working for free for 1-2 months.

I've been in SEO for the last 4 years. I do in-house enterprise stuff now, but I had started a consulting gig for a little while a few years ago. I spent 1 month telling everyone and anyone that I was doing free SEO consulting in exchange for a great testimonial (read: Yelp review). Got 8 or 9 free clients. Two insisted on paying me after the work was done, and the rest wrote me fantastic testimonials and sent me referrals for months. Afterwards, your testimonials and Yelp reviews will be the catalyst for more business in the future. My 2 c's.

trg2··on Paid Vacation? That’s Not Cool. You Know What’s Cool? Paid, Paid Vacation.
Best. Job Posting. Ever.
trg2··on Show HN: VA kids love drinking, hate paying. Step 1. Thoughts?
This reminds me of a vertical-focused Yelp, with good semantic markup for prices of individual items. Super cool, nice work guys. Will definitely keep an eye on you going forward.
trg2··on PayPal.com Gets a Makeover [UI]
Sure thing. Here's a screenshot I just took of my account. I blurred out some of the information, but this should give you an idea. http://i.imgur.com/QvJNf.png

Let me ask around on the adaptive payments checkout UI. There's a lot going on right now and it's hard to stay up on everything that I'm not working on directly.

trg2··on PayPal.com Gets a Makeover [UI]
That's annoying. I'll tell the guys today. Thanks for the feedback.
trg2··on PayPal.com Gets a Makeover [UI]
Hi. I work at PayPal. Really good feedback from everyone, so thanks for that. This redesign has been a long time coming, and the team that launched it are some of the most brilliant I've ever been lucky enough to work with.

As for the internal UI, that's changing soon too. If you're interested in checking out the beta, activate in-store checkout with your PayPal account at paypal.com/anywhere and you'll see the new account design. Still have work to do but it's getting much better. I'm an employee so I have a bias, but I'm also a customer that's been bitching about the UI for the last 8 years as well. I'm really happy with the direction the site (and the company) is headed.

trg2··on Why Silicon Valley Tech Wunderkinds Overestimate Their Own Smarts and Abilities
Surprisingly modest comment from Mark Zuckerberg in this article about Viacom, especially at such a young age. Really interesting.
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