A Reminder About Selling Yourself

Christopher Poole, aka moot aka the founder of 4chan, one of the vilest (and most fascinating) communities on the Internet, spoke at TED yesterday.

The subject of his talk was about anonymity on the internet, and how, since 4chan doesn’t require a user to post his/her real name, community thrives.

Fine, fine. But this is the 21-year-old who was profiled in the Washington Post almost a year ago about how, despite his Internet celebrity, he couldn’t get a job.

From the article:

How to explain what Christopher Poole actually does? He’s not a programmer.

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