A collection of essays, poetry, and fiction I’ve written over the years.

Asides & Links Timothy Hankins Asides & Links Timothy Hankins

Swimming with the clown fish

What we have to do is ditch the idea that, because we create content, we‘re entitled to profit from it. We still have to earn our money, even after we‘ve created the content the public seems to be clammering for all over the Internet. We earn it by getting people to stay on our site once they get there via Digg or Google, and by giving them a reason to become invested in what we do because we give them a great user experience and a very high signal to noise ratio.

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Asides & Links Timothy Hankins Asides & Links Timothy Hankins

Fatherhood

Fatherhood is funny thing. It turns a man who is well-respected at work, considered to be intelligent by his colleagues and clever by his friends, into a complete idiot. I‘m not a father yet, but I‘m already beginning to see that mine isn‘t nearly as stupid as he used to be.

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