BoingBoing: A Tale Of Four People Who Do Whatever They Want

If you’re Mark Frauenfelder, Cory Doctorow, Xeni Jardin, or David Pescovitz, you can do what you love.

Everyone else: they’re not hiring, sorry.

Still, the success story of Boingboing.net, aka the “directory of wonderful things”, profiled in Fast Company, is worth a read.

The site started in 1999, and since then it’s stayed true to its roots: “The principals post whatever they want, whenever they feel like it. They don’t bother to copyedit in advance, let alone vet or discuss one another’s contributions.

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