A few good links
Tim O’Reilly’s article about doing what matters. Tim has an interesting series going urging people to work on stuff that matters. It’s a nice position to take, but sometimes what matters it eating and paying rent. I feel the same way when people tell you to do what you love. Sometimes that means having your heat turned off. It’s pie in the sky, but life needs optimism I suppose.
Fred Wilson reminds us that profits equal revenues minus costs.
And an article linked from the Wilson piece, Chris Anderson analyzes the Economics of Giving it away.