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Last time I changed jobs (from Plumtree to Yahoo!), I swore I would take at least a week off between jobs.  So what do I do this time? I quit my old job at Yahoo! Answers on Friday, and I started my new job on Saturday. On Saturday, I jumped on a plane to Tel Aviv, Israel, where the development team resides. And here I am now, first time in the Middle East.   The new gig, MyThings, is hopefully going to be a blend of e-commerce and social networking.  At least it uses all the Web 2.0 buzzwords.  Now I have to help make it become reality.  With the development team in Israel, the sales team in London, and the Marketing & Product Mgmt team in Palo Alto, it will be a real challenge to manage the geographic divide, but the opportunity in this space make it all worthwhile.  Or at least lets hope so…..

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Yesterday was my last day at Yahoo!, and at Yahoo! Answers.  It was the usual last day at work with the cube cleaning, deleting personal files from the harddrive, a farewell lunch, bequeathing accumulated swag and memorabila to colleagues and a happy hour with silly balloon hats.  This morning when I woke up and saw the little cardboard box that contained 2 years worth of crap that had accumulated on my desk, I was struck by how small that box was, and how the contents of that little box did not even begin to tell the stories of the last 2 years of my life – the smiles of co-workers, the bitter political in-fighting, the disappointments and drunken hilarity. And then I thought of a short story that I read in college about the man who remembered everything in real time, and so could not live his life (he kept on remembering his past….).  Then I thought, hmmm, what about a video memory of your life in YouTube?

which I haven’t been following at all.  Caterina of Flickr fame told me, before she became Newsweek-cover famous, these  golden rules:

1) Write short entries (all my entries are 500 words or more)

2) Blog often (I have 3-6 month gaps)

3) Suckup to popular bloggers and beg for their links

 Anyway – maybe I’ll try that now.  So here goes – Caterina is doing something really interesting on her blog http://www.caterina.net/archive/001008.html Its the six-word story mentioned by Hemingway – “For sale: baby shoes, never used.”  Lots of people are contributing…. (can you find mine?)