Writing Wednesdays: The Most Important Writing Lesson I Ever Learned

By Steven Pressfield | Published: October 21, 2009 My first real job was in advertising.I worked as a copywriter for an agency called Benton & Bowles in New York City.An artist or entrepreneur's first job inevitably bends the twig.It shapes who you'll become.If your freshman outing is in journalism, your brain gets tattooed (in a good way) with who-what-where-when-why, fact-check-everything, never-bury-the-lead.If you start out as a photographer's assistant, you learn other stuff.If you plunge into business on your own, the education is about self-discipline, self-motivation, self-validation.

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Project: Blue Sky

The Experience Imagine that you are in Black Rock desert close to Center Camp. You step into a brightly decorated space surrounded by ancient statues. You are ushered into a shipping container that has been converted into a high-tech innovation lab.

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Facebook: A Fate More Similar To Yahoo Or Google?

Editor's note: Guest author David Cho is CEO and co-founder of Sidebark, the private photo and video sharing service. Prior to founding Sidebark, he was a leader in Bain & Company's digital media practice. How much more valuable do you think Facebook is than Yahoo? Let's say I gave you 1% of Facebook's stock.

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Barnes and Noble cuts prices across its Nook lineup, vies for your budget tablet affection

In what could be seen as a response to the positive reaction that Google's $200 Nexus 7 has garnered, Barnes & Noble has

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Top 10 Clever Uses for Dropbox

Dropbox is an awesome service. You can back your files up to the cloud, sync them between computers, and share them with your friends. That's not all it can do, though. Here are our top 10 favorite clever uses for our favorite file syncing program.

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