This is not a man with a blog.
One of the basic tenets of fairness in a poker game is that you can’t remove money from the table until you get up. You can (and should) count it all you want, but it’s got to stay on the table. This gives the other players a chance to win it back from you. So…
So I’ve setup twitter as an experiment during the upcoming Vegas trip. If you’re interested in following me, you can check the right column of the blog at www.safdar.net, my Facebook status, or actually follow me on twitter if you’re that sort of person that actually uses twitter to follow people. I may not keep…
A couple of years ago, right before Moishe was born, I made a long desired trip to play in one of the baby events at the World Series of Poker. I did terribly and got put out after an hour and twenty minutes, but it was fun nevertheless. The rest of that trip was mostly…
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Someone commented that they wanted to e-mail me but there was no entry on my blog about how to do that. So here’s some guidance in order of my preference: Write me by e-mail: I much prefer to be approached by e-mail. You can send e-mail to shabbir -at- safdar.net. You will be prompted to…
So I think my experiment with session length is over. Playing last night live and microstakes online for the last few weeks has yielded a number of epiphanies. The reason that I’m trying to run short sessions is to cover for leaks in my game. The longer I sit, the more the leaks cut into…
If you’re on a team consulting to a client, there are three rules you need to follow if you’re the client lead or the point of contact: When a client sends you a request, you need to acknowledge it right away even if you don’t know how you’re going to handle it. You can follow…
I just caught "Wikihistory", by Desmond Warzel, a short story about a collaborative wiki being kept by time travelers. All the worst behaviors of both time travelers and wikipedia fans are in full effect. It’s a hysterical read. Start at the top and work your way down, just like reading fiction.
What does the Theory of 1,000 True Fans means for public relations, public affairs, and non-profits?
If you were paying any attention to the the music industry last year, you may have noticed that Radiohead ran an experiment where they basically gave away their latest album online a "pay what you want" model. Two amazing things happened: over the course of a few months 1.2 million people downloaded it; and on…
Pretty much everyone who’s ever heard Clay Shirky perfectly analyze an online trend has said to themselves, "Damn, I’m gonna go buy that guy’s book!" Until now, no such book existed. Your wait is over. At the Supernova 2007 conference, organizer Kevin Werbach asked Clay Shirky to provoke the audience. In a brief nine minutes,…