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Over the past year, the most important lesson I’ve learnt while freelancing is: pick your clients carefully. Even if you’re relatively desperate for graphic and web design work (and you probably won’t be for long), it’s best to err on the side of caution if you believe a prospective client might be Bad News. (I’d…

Ben Brooks: That’s my largest fear with the Google X lab. Google has proven many times over that they can indeed make some really cool stuff. The problem is that they largely fail at creating practical, consumer, applications for their products that they dream up (Google Wave, for example. Google TV as another example.) Kyle…

A lot has been written already about the future of the book. And yet, the words keep flowing (sometimes in books, but most often in the online spaces we believe are drawing us away from books). We find the conversation interesting and important because there’s a sense that books are the receptacles of our shared…

I’ve been sitting here trying to figure out what to write for about fifteen minutes. Whatever I say will be sandwiched between thousands of obituaries, but that doesn’t matter. I’m writing this for me. Conventionally, we’re told to distinguish work from life, art from commerce, the serious from the joyful. As far as I can…

If you’re any kind of creative professional, you have two levels of obligation to your clients. One of those levels is your legal obligation, which should be laid out in some kind of written contract or agreement. The second level is an ethical obligation. If your client is savvy, your legal obligation and your ethical obligation…